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The rate constants for rotational excitation, the coefficient of RT diffusion for the Ar-N2 system, and the rotational relaxation time in N2 are calculated using the quasiclassical approximation.
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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 47, No. 2, pp. 300–310, August, 1984.
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Dubrovskii, G.V., Pavlov, V.A. & Mukhametzyanov, R.É. Rotational excitation of diatomic molecules in collisions with atoms. Journal of Engineering Physics 47, 971–980 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00869705
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