Posted by natash on Monday, April 14, 2008 at 9:26pm.
Briefly, the series starting with n=2 to n=1, and going to n= 10 to n=1, are much more energetic than those of the other series because of the energy differences of the levels involved. Therefore, the Lyman series is in the ultraviolet and not in the visible or infrared.
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