The Saha ionization equation

European Journal of Physics

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 7-14

  Ghosh, Kingshuk ^a,b   Ghosh, Gautam ^a  

^a SAHA INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

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EID: 0001995753     PISSN: 01430807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0143-0807/19/1/003     Document Type: Article

References (8)

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2. Saha M N 1920 Ionization in the solar chromosphere Phil. Mag. 40 472
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4. Nickel G H 1968 Elementary derivation of the Saha equation Am. J. Phys. 48 448
5. ter Haar D 1955 On the use of grand ensembles in statistical mechanics: a new derivation of Saha's formula Am. J. Phys. 23 326
6. Griem H R 1964 Plasma Spectroscopy (New York: McGraw-Hill) pp 137-40
7. For further details, see e.g. Van Kampen N G and Felderhof B U 1967 Theoretical Methods in Plasma Physics (Amsterdam: North-Holland) pp 82-5
8. D L Book 1987 NRL Plasma Formulary (Washington, DC: Naval Research Laboratory) pp 40-1