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- Named after
- Johann Jakob Balmer
- Followed by
- Paschen series
- Follows
- Lyman series
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Encyclopedic overview
The "visible" hydrogen emission spectrum lines in the Balmer series. H-alpha is the red line at the right. Four lines (counting from the right) are formally in the visible range. Lines five and six can be seen with the naked eye, but are considered to be ultraviolet as they have wavelengths less than 400 nm.
The Balmer series, or Balmer lines in atomic physics, is one of a set of six named series describing the spectral line emissions of the hydrogen atom. The Balmer series is calculated using the Balmer formula, an empirical equation discovered by Johann Balmer in 1885.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Balmer series” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.