A few level approach for the electronic partition function of atomic systems

Spectrochimica Acta - Part B Atomic Spectroscopy

Volumn 64, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 863-873

  Colonna, Gianpiero ^a   Capitelli, Mario ^b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Atomic partition function; Statistical thermodynamic; Superconfiguration

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PARTITION FUNCTION; ATOMIC SPECIES; ATOMIC STATE; ATOMIC SYSTEM; BOLTZMANN DISTRIBUTION; NITROGEN ATOM; PARTITION FUNCTIONS; SECOND-ORDER CORRECTION; SIMPLIFIED MODELS; STATISTICAL THERMODYNAMIC; STATISTICAL WEIGHT; SUPERCONFIGURATION; THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS; THREE-LEVEL MODELS;

BOLTZMANN EQUATION; HYDROGEN; OXYGEN; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

ERROR CORRECTION;

EID: 70349129499     PISSN: 05848547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sab.2009.07.002     Document Type: Article

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