Hydrogen has only one electron in its only (and outer) electron shell. If a hydrogen atom were to absorb a tremendous amount of energy where would Bohr say the electron would go?

A. fly off the atom

B. nowhere, it would just speed up.

C. spiral inwards towards the nucleus

D. move up to another shell that would form

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24 September, 13:08

Hydrogen has only one electron in its only (and outer) electron shell. If a hydrogen atom were to absorb a tremendous amount of energy where would Bohr say the electron would go?

A. fly off the atom

B. nowhere, it would just speed up.

C. spiral inwards towards the nucleus

D. move up to another shell that would form

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Gerald Esparza · Answer 1

Bohr's itself included that electrons take on energy equal to the energy required to the transition from one level to the other excited level. so if a very large amount of energy is given to the electron it will go in the exccited state & if in case the amount of energy is too high ... it will fly away from the atom. So A is the correct option