Assertion: hydrogen's energy | /r/CapableOf | excite the hydrogen atom's electron
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value: from 1
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Since it takes nearly as much energy to excite the hydrogen atom's electron from n = 1 to n = 3 (12.1 eV, via the Rydberg formula) as it does to ionize the hydrogen atom (13.6 eV), ionization is far more probable than excitation to the n = 3 level.