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Top Panel: β measured by Cuderman (1972) for K + O2 and K + N2. The solid lines through the experimental points are fits of the expression from Jones (1997). The dash line is the estimate β for K + air collisions, which includes the correction for multiple high energy collisions. Bottom Panel: Variation of β for all the meteoric atoms colliding with air, as a function of particle velocity.
