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New formulas for relevant relaxation times and relaxation lengths for the establishment of partial local thermal equilibrium are presented taking into consideration the influence of the ground state on the population of the excited levels and on the energy distribution of the free electron gas.
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W. Engelhardt (1973) studied this question.
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