 Gas-phase metallicity (source code)

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= Gas-phase metallicity
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Gas-phase metallicity is the heavy-element abundance of interstellar gas. In star-forming galaxies it is commonly inferred from nebular emission lines in <H II regions>, often through oxygen abundance $12+\log_{10}(\mathrm O/\mathrm H)$.

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