Re: Does the hydrogen spectral series represent atomic hydrogen?

Path	csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!news.mb-net.net!open-news-network.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From	Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
Newsgroups	sci.physics
Subject	Re: Does the hydrogen spectral series represent atomic hydrogen?
Date	Fri, 02 Sep 2016 18:13:30 +0200
Organization	PointedEars Software (PES)
Lines	21
Message-ID	<2000659.ElGaqSPkdT@PointedEars.de> (permalink)
References	<oicdsbpjlprmies5kflhi8e5jml6cpodkq@4ax.com>
Reply-To	Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <usenet@PointedEars.de>
NNTP-Posting-Host	63.228.197.178.dynamic.wless.zhbmb00p-cgnat.res.cust.swisscom.ch
Mime-Version	1.0
Content-Type	text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding	8Bit
X-Trace	gwaiyur.mb-net.net 1472832812 15370 178.197.228.63 (2 Sep 2016 16:13:32 GMT)
X-Complaints-To	abuse@open-news-network.org
NNTP-Posting-Date	Fri, 2 Sep 2016 16:13:32 +0000 (UTC)
User-Agent	KNode/4.14.2
Xref	csiph.com sci.physics:595617

Show key headers only | View raw

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.

-- 
PointedEars

Twitter: @PointedEars2
Please do not cc me. / Bitte keine Kopien per E-Mail.

Back to sci.physics | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

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

csiph-web