A hydrogen-like atom is an atom that has only one electron, similar to a hydrogen atom. The term is typically used to refer to systems that have a nucleus with a positive charge and a single electron orbiting around it. Although hydrogen is the simplest example with one proton (atomic number 1) in the nucleus, hydrogen-like atoms can also include ions of other elements that have lost all but one of their electrons.
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