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Saha equation
A formula, derived by the Indian astrophysicist Meghnad Saha (1894–1956) in 1920, that gives the fraction of atoms in each different excited state in a gas in thermal equilibrium at some specified temperature and total density. This in turn predicts the strength of spectral lines.
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