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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 July 2016
The abundances are usually determined assuming homogeneous concentrations for all elements in the line forming region. If diffusion driven by radiation occurs, this condition is not verified and the element stratification affects the equivalent widths as well as the line profiles. We shall illustrate these problems by a study of the gallium case. A synthetic spectrum of the Ga II resonance line λ 1414.401 Å has been computed assuming that gallium is stratified according a recent theoretical study of the diffusion of this element.