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Published on: August 13, 2026
For a hydrogen atom, the energies that an electron can have are given by the expression, 
where 
is an integer. The smallest amount of energy that a hydrogen atom in the ground state can absorb is
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B
it can absorb minimum of 10.185 eV.
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