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Q.Write any one limitation of Bohr's atomic model.

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Bohr's model was designed for and works only for single-electron (hydrogen-like) systems; it breaks down once more than one electron interacts within the atom.

One key limitation of Bohr's atomic model: it successfully explains the line spectrum of hydrogen (and other hydrogen-like single-electron ions such as He+^+, Li2+^{2+}), but it fails to explain the spectra of atoms with more than one electron, because it does not account for the electron-electron interactions/repulsions present in multi-electron atoms. (Other valid limitations include: it does not explain the relative intensities of spectral lines, the fine structure (splitting) of spectral lines, or the Zeeman/Stark effects, and it arbitr …

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