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The study of HII regions in the disks of spiral galaxies has given us important information about their physical conditions. In particular the study of their chemical abundances soon showed the existence of negative gradients with higher abundance towards the centre of a galaxy (e.g. Pagel and Edmunds 1981; McCall 1982; Díaz 1989; Dinerstein 1990).
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Vila-Costas, M.B. (1997). Abundance Gradients in Spiral Galaxies. In: van der Hulst, J.M. (eds) The Interstellar Medium in Galaxies. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 219. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5620-2_6
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