Whenever a hydrogen atom emits a photon ...

Whenever a hydrogen atom emits a photon in the Balmer series

it may emit another photon in the Balmer series

it must emit another photon in the Lyman series

the second photon ,if emitted ,will have a wavelength of about 122 nm

it may emit a second photon , but the wavelength of this photon cannot be predicted

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