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Stark effect comparison table

Subject	has use	has effect	is a kind of	has cause	is proportional to	has definition
line broadening			radiation modification			Increase in the range of wavelengths in which some characteristic emission or absorption occurs.
Stark effect	indicator of atmospheric pressure in a stellar atmosphere and hence of the star's luminosity	splitting of a spectral line	line broadening	the influence of an electric field on a radiating atom or ion	the ion and electron density in a plasma	Line broadening due to the influence of electric fields.

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