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Whenever a hydrogen atom emits a photon ...

Whenever a hydrogen atom emits a photon in the Balmer series

A

it need not emit any more photon

B

it may emit another photon in’the Paschen series

C

it must emit another photon in the Lyman series

D

it may emit another photon in the Balmer series.

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