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Increasing the conserved nucleus density to multiplies the low-temperature neutral-gas slope and high-temperature ionized-gas slope by ten. However, at a fixed intermediate temperature, is smaller, so a smaller fraction is ionized. The curved transition therefore moves to higher temperature; the new graph is not simply ten times the old graph throughout the crossover.
At a fixed chosen ionization fraction, must increase tenfold. Locally this requires
which is of order in this region. Directly evaluating the same Saha equation at moves the maximum pressure slope from about to . The two asymptotic slopes still have ratio two, because each hydrogen nucleus still contributes one particle when neutral and two when fully ionized.

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