English Explanatory Dictionary

Lyman series

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. A hydrogen spectral series of transitions and resulting ultraviolet emission lines of the hydrogen atom as an electron goes from n ≥ 2 to n = 1 (where n is the principal quantum number), the lowest energy level of the electron.

Word forms

Lyman series

Etymology

Named after the Harvard physicist Theodore Lyman IV, who in 1906 discovered the first line in the spectrum.

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