Consider a Helium ion with 1 electron in the ground state. It turns out that it would take about 28 eV of energy to remove this electron through ionization. Blue photons have an energy of about 4 eV So, I think this electron can emit about 7 blue photons. Do you agree?

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Consider a Helium ion with 1 electron in the ground state. It turns out that it would take about 28 eV of energy to remove this electron through ionization. Blue photons have an energy of about 4 eV
. So, I think this electron can emit about 7 blue photons. Do you agree?
Transcribed Image Text:Consider a Helium ion with 1 electron in the ground state. It turns out that it would take about 28 eV of energy to remove this electron through ionization. Blue photons have an energy of about 4 eV . So, I think this electron can emit about 7 blue photons. Do you agree?
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