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$\begingroup$ (+1) You had me at porridge! $\endgroup$
– Ed V
Commented Jun 27 at 20:44
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$\begingroup$ An image might help make this more easily understood. Just a suggestion. :-) (The image I linked is Creative Commons licensed.) $\endgroup$
– Jason Patterson
Commented Jun 28 at 0:11
$\begingroup$ I do not understand. An image of what? The spectra? The Sun's blackbody radiation? $\endgroup$
– Oscar Lanzi
Commented Jun 28 at 0:24
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$\begingroup$ I linked an image of the transitions. I was suggesting that being able to see the transitions and their relative sizes depicted graphically might make something like a transition to a given value of n make more sense. $\endgroup$
– Jason Patterson
Commented Jun 28 at 3:50

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