Balmer continuum

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Balmer continuum [¦bäl·mər kən′tin·yə·wəm]

(spectroscopy)

A continuous range of wavelengths (or wave numbers or frequencies) in the spectrum of hydrogen at wavelengths less than the Balmer limit, resulting from transitions between states with principal quantum numbern= 2 and states in which the single electron is freed from the atom.

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