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IN dense plasmas recombination through electron–electron collisions can be the major cause of loss of free electrons. The mechanism is akin to three-body ionic recombination but differs because of the long-range Coulomb forces involved, because the bound states cannot be treated as forming a continuum and because of the effect of radiative transitions.
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Loeb, L. B., Basic Processes of Gaseous Electronics, 559 (Univ. of California Press, 1955).
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BATES, D., KINGSTON, A. Recombination through Electron–Electron Collisions. Nature 189, 652–653 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1038/189652a0
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