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ent values of sodium vapor densities. The collisional ionization processes such as the associative ionization and
Hornbeck-Molnar ionization play the important rule in producing the molecular ion density
. The good
agreement shown in compare the calculated and measurement values of the formed Na3+ and Na2+ reveled the
validity of the model in investigated the plasma generation using LIBORS technique.
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