A Hydrogen Atom with a Barely Bound Electron May Have $14 \mu \mathrm { m }$

question 15

Multiple Choice

A hydrogen atom with a barely bound electron may have an average radius as large as a bacterium, which is a radius of $14 \mu \mathrm { m }$ . What is the nearest principal quantum number of the atom in this state? The radius for ground state hydrogen is $0.0529 \mathrm {~nm}$ .

• A) 264,650
• B) 51
• C) 16
• D) 514