Relativistic
distorte
d-wave collision strengths have been calculate
d for all possible
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d level, in the 67 Li-like, F-like an
d Na-like ions with
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duces 3 transitions with
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d F-like ions, an
d 10 transitions with
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d F-like ions, the calculations were ma
de for the six final, or scattere
d, electron energies
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d 0.75, where
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d d="mmlsi201" class="mathmlsrc">data-mathURL="/science?_ob=MathURL&_method=retrieve&_eid=1-s2.0-S0092640X16300080&_mathId=si201.gif&_user=111111111&_pii=S0092640X16300080&_rdoc=1&_issn=0092640X&md5=06eb3401919359a66fbdea78a5ad1d20">
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de for the six final electron energies
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d 0.40, with
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d &l
dquo;top-up&r
dquo; metho
d, which employs relativistic plane waves, was use
d to obtain the high partial-wave contribution for each transition, in contrast to the partial-relativistic Coulomb&n
dash;Bethe approximation use
d in previous works by
Zhang, Sampson an
d Fontes [H.L. Zhang, D.H. Sampson, C.J. Fontes, At. Data Nucl. Data Tables 44 (1990) 31; H.L. Zhang, D.H. Sampson, C.J. Fontes, At. Data Nucl. Data Tables 48 (1991) 25; D.H. Sampson, H.L. Zhang, C.J. Fontes, At. Data Nucl. Data Tables 44 (1990) 209]. In those previous works, collision strengths were also provi
de
d for Li-, F- an
d Na-like ions, but for a more comprehensive set of transitions. The collision strengths covere
d in the present work shoul
d be more accurate than the correspon
ding
data given in those previous works an
d are presente
d here to replace those earlier results.