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Suggest two comouds (fuel ) other than hydrogen that can be used as fuels in fuel cells

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Strategy : Maximum wavelength corresponds to minimum energy, and this would be the jump from the ground state up to the first excited state. The next smaller wavelength occurs for the jump from the ground state to the second excited state. In each case, the energy difference can be used to find the wavelength .
The energy needed to jump from the ground state to the first excited state is 13.6 eV-3.4 eV=10.2 eV , the required wavelength, as we saw in one of the previous example, is 122 nm. The energy to jump from the ground state to the second excited state is 13.6 eV-1.5 eV=12.1 eV, which corresponds to a wavelength
`lambda=c/f="hc"/"hf"="hc"/(E_3-E_1)`
`=((6.63xx10^(-34) J.s)(3.00xx10^8 m//s))/((12.1 eV)(1.60xx10^(-19) J//eV))`
=103 nm
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