Paschen series


Paschen series

(pä`shən): see spectrumspectrum,
arrangement or display of light or other form of radiation separated according to wavelength, frequency, energy, or some other property. Beams of charged particles can be separated into a spectrum according to mass in a mass spectrometer (see mass spectrograph).
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Paschen series

(pash -ĕn) See hydrogen spectrum.

Paschen series

[′päsh·ən ‚sir·ēz] (spectroscopy) A series of lines in the infrared spectrum of atomic hydrogen whose wave numbers are given by RH [(1/9) - (1/ n 2)], where RH is the Rydberg constant for hydrogen, and n is any integer greater than 3.