Indeed, the bow shocks are thought to sweep up or entrain dense gas from the surrounding cloud to form the bipolar outflow.
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It consists of regions of dense gas and dust.
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Collision-induced spectra have been observed in nearly all dense gases, and also in many liquids and solids.
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These can accurately describe the properties of dense gases, because they include the volume of the molecules.
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