Plasma excitation temperature

{
  "id": "MLC-T-CHM-009011",
  "term": "Plasma excitation temperature",
  "field": "Chemistry",
  "definition": "The temperature that describes how the populations of excited levels of atoms or ions in a plasma follow a Boltzmann distribution. It is obtained from the relative intensities of emission lines of one species, for example from the slope of a Boltzmann plot. It equals the electron temperature only when the plasma is in local thermodynamic equilibrium.",
  "subject": "Analytical Chemistry",
  "references": [
    "PAC, 2021, 93, 647. 'Glossary of methods and terms used in analytical spectroscopy (IUPAC Recommendations 2019)' on page 727 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2019-0203)"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/chemistry/plasma-excitation-temperature/"
}