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Question

Electrons are de-exciting from the fifth orbit in hydrogen atoms but the first orbit is not available for them. The maximum number of spectral lines should be

Options

A.10
B.6
C.15
D.3

Solution

Number of available orbits is only 4. Hence, maximum number of spectral lines = $4_{C_{2}} = 6$.

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