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Gaunt factor
  کروند ِ گاؤنت  
karvand-e Gaunt
Fr.: facteur de Gaunt  

In the atomic theory of spectral line formation, a quantum mechanical correction factor applied to the absorption coefficient in the transition of an electron from a bound or free state to a free state.

See also: Gaunt, after John Arthur Gaunt (1904-1944), English physicist born in China, who significantly contributed to the calculation of continuous absorption using quantum mechanics;
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