Given below are two statements:
Statement I: When an electric discharge is passed through gaseous hydrogen, the hydrogen molecules dissociate and the energetically excited hydrogen atoms produce electromagnetic radiation of discrete frequencies.
Statement II: The frequency of second line of Balmer series obtained from He⁺ is equal to that of first line of Lyman series obtained from hydrogen atom.
In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:
- A
Statement I is true but Statement II is false
- B
Both Statement I and Statement II are true
- C
Statement I is false but Statement II is true
- D
Both Statement I and Statement II are false
