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In this chapter we study the opacity process by electron conduction, which is important in dense, collapsed objects such as white dwarfs and neutron stars.
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Maciel, W.J. (2016). Electron Conduction. In: Introduction to Stellar Structure. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16142-6_9
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