This fraction compares gas mass with gas plus permanently locked stellar mass in a stated galactic reservoir. Under instantaneous recycling with a constant locking fraction and star formation proportional to gas mass, it decays as . Gross cumulative star formation is not the denominator's surviving stellar mass.

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