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When an electron in a hydrogen atom jumps from an orbit farther from the nucleus to an o...

When an electron in a hydrogen atom jumps from an orbit farther from the nucleus to an orbit closer to the nucleus, it

a. emits a single photon with an energy equal to the energy difference of the two orbits.

b. emits four photons, one for each of the color lines observed in the line spectrum of hydrogen.

c. emits a number of photons dependent on the number of orbit levels jumped over.

d. None of the above is correct.

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