Hydrogen Orbitals: Explaining the Mysteries

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Everybody knows Hydrogen has one electron which resides in K orbit.While explaining Hydrogen bonding we talk about higher orbits while explaining Lyman Balmer,Pashen,Buffet & Brackett series of Hydrogen spectrum.If only one electron resides in first orbit,then how it'll transfer to higher orbits which doe'nt exist in case of Hydrogen?

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