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Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Mekhaniki i Tekhnicheskoi Fiziki, No. 6, pp. 9–16, November–December, 1981.
We thank R. Kh. Abdullin for participating in the analysis of the experimental results and P. A. Skovorodko for providing the results of the calculations.
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Zarvin, A.E., Sharafutdinov, R.G. Rotational relaxation in the transition regime of free nitrogen jets. J Appl Mech Tech Phys 22, 737–744 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00906099
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