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The Sun's outer atmosphere, or corona, is a hot, diffuse gas with approximate temperature $T=2 \times 10^{6} \mathrm{~K}$ and pressure $P=0.03 \mathrm{~Pa}$. What's the number density of particles in the corona?
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