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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 49, No. 1, pp. 154–170, July, 1985.

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Osipov, A.I. Rotational relaxation in gases. Journal of Engineering Physics 49, 865–878 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01276534

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