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The fluorine sites form a simple cubic sublattice of spacing . Adopt uncorrelated nearest-neighbour hopping, identify the field-correlation time with the total jump waiting time, and use homonuclear dipolar relaxation: and . Then
If the simplified single-frequency condition is used instead, the corresponding estimates are and . These are explicit model-dependent estimates, not a uniquely measured tracer diffusivity: a different correlation-time-to-jump-time conversion or defect correlation factor multiplies them by . The lattice constant supplies a jump distance, not proof that all possible neighbouring sites are vacant.

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