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Saha ionization equation
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Developed by the Indian astrophysicist Meghnad Saha in 1920, this formula describes the degree of ionization of a gas as a function of the temperature T, density, and ionization energy.
Let X = ne / n be the ionization fraction, i.e., the electron density relative to the total density of atoms and ions. Then the Saha equation is
where h is Planck's constant and I is the ionization energy.
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