balmer series

Balmer series

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noun balmer series a series of lines in the hydrogen spectrum, discovered by Johann Jakob Balmer (1825–98) in 1885 3
noun balmer series a series of lines in the visible spectrum of hydrogen. 1
noun balmer series (physics) The set of spectral lines of the hydrogen atom that correspond to transitions involving a principal quantum number n=2. 0

before 1960

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1960-65; named after J. J. Balmer (1825-98), Swiss physicist who derived its formula

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