Hydrogen (H) in plasma

Hydrogen does not draw a ring at all: it floods the whole flask an even, saturated magenta with a white-hot ball sitting in the middle of it. The colour is the most textbook thing in this collection, the Balmer series doing exactly what the diagrams promise: red H-alpha at 656 nm over blue-green H-beta at 486, which the eye adds into magenta, with violet H-gamma underneath. In the brightest frame the core washes out to near white.

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• Hydrogen (H) glowing plasma discharge, video 12 of 12

Periodic Table of Plasma