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The third line of the balmer series in the emission spectrum of the hydrogen atom is due to the transition from the.
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B
Rydberg’s formula for calculation of wavenumbers of lines in hydrogen spectrum is
For Balmer series, 
and 
so third line of the Balmer series is due to transition from fifth Bohr orbit to second Bohr orbit.
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