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ionization temperature
The temperature of a gas or plasma derived from the relative numbers of neutral atoms and ions. Specifically, it is the temperature for which the Saha equations would predict these relative numbers, assuming the atoms and ions are in thermodynamic equilibrium.
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• ASTRONOMICAL QUANTITIES
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