Increasing the conserved nucleus density to 10N multiplies the low-temperature neutral-gasslope and high-temperature ionized-gasslope by ten. However, at a fixed intermediate temperature, x2/(1−x)=S(T)/(10N) 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, S(T) must increase tenfold. Locally this requires
which is of order 103K in this region. Directly evaluating the same Saha equation at 1021m−3 moves the maximum pressureslope from about 9250 to 10560K. The two asymptotic slopes still have ratio two, because each hydrogen nucleus still contributes one particle when neutral and two when fully ionized.