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In Sect. 4.2 and Chap. 13 we assumed complete ionization of all atoms. This is a good approximation in the very deep interior, where T and P are sufficiently large, but the degree of ionization certainly becomes smaller if one approaches the stellar surface, where T and P are small.
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Kippenhahn, R., Weigert, A., Weiss, A. (2012). Ionization. In: Stellar Structure and Evolution. Astronomy and Astrophysics Library. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30304-3_14
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