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Re: Does the hydrogen spectral series represent atomic hydrogen?

From Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
Newsgroups sci.physics
Subject Re: Does the hydrogen spectral series represent atomic hydrogen?
Date 2016-09-02 18:13 +0200
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Rich DeSantis wrote:

> The hydrogen spectral series cannot represent atomic hydrogen,

Yes, it can and it does (for suitable values of “represent”).

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_spectral_series>

> because each spectral line corresponds to a change of molecular species,

No, it does not.

> not an energy change within a molecular species.

It does not correspond to that either.

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Does the hydrogen spectral series represent atomic hydrogen? Rich DeSantis <richarddesaneis@gmail.com> - 2016-08-31 06:34 -0400
  Re: Does the hydrogen spectral series represent atomic hydrogen? Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2016-08-31 19:54 +0200
    Re: Does the hydrogen spectral series represent atomic hydrogen? Rich DeSantis <richarddesaneis@gmail.com> - 2016-09-07 06:53 -0400
      Re: Does the hydrogen spectral series represent atomic hydrogen? Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2016-09-07 16:11 +0200
        Re: Does the hydrogen spectral series represent atomic hydrogen? Rich DeSantis <richarddesaneis@gmail.com> - 2016-09-28 14:49 -0400
          Re: Does the hydrogen spectral series represent atomic hydrogen? Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2016-09-28 21:38 +0200
  Re: Does the hydrogen spectral series represent atomic hydrogen? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-09-02 18:13 +0200

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