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The beam-foil technique has been used to measure the mean lives of some excited levels in multiply oxygen and neon. The values for the mean lives are Cascades that affected the decay of the 2p⁴⁴P level in the Ne iv have been taken into account in the determination of the mean life of that level. The decays of other states were not affected by cascades. Possible effects from unresolved spectral lines from two different levels were considered and found to be negligible for the cases treated herein.
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William S. Bickel (1967) studied this question.
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