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How can a single electron in a hydrogen atoms produce all of the lines found in the emission spectrum?
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∙ 8y ago
The electron has several possible energy levels. One of the lines corresponds to a transition from level 2 to level 1, another from level 3 to level 1, another from level 4 to level 1, another from level 3 to level 2, etc.
Cheyanne Tremblay
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∙ 15y agoIt is not the number of electrons that determines the number of transitions, but the number of energy levels (obitals) that the electron can be in. each absorption line is produced by an electron in some energy level that absorbs a photon and jump to a higher level. each jump is called a transition. you can jump from level 1 to level 2 and you produce a line. you jump from 1 to 3 and you produce another line.
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∙ 7y agoThe lines in the emission spectrum result from electrons falling from higher to lower energy levels. For example, if an electron falls from n=2 to n=1, you get a certain energy (wavelength). If one falls from n=3 to n=1, you get another HIGHER energy wavelength. Each of these gives a line in the emission spectrum. That SINGLE electron in the hydrogen atom is not always in the same shell. It can be excited to higher energy levels, and then when if falls back to a lower energy state, you get these lines.
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∙ 11y agobecause there are a large number of excited state energy levels possible for hydrogen and each line corresponds to each transition from one energy level to the other.
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∙ 6y agoThe electron has different possible energy levels; it can "fall" from any energy level to any other energy level, resulting in many different combinations.
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∙ 11y agobecause it does yo
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