The Lyman series refers to:
A) the photons produced as an electron makes a series of jumps from a high excited state to the ground state of hydrogen.
B) the discrete orbits in the hydrogen atom.
C) electronic transitions between the ground state and excited states of hydrogen.
D) electronic transitions in the hydrogen atom that produce light in the visible part of the spectrum.
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