Abstract
The effectiveness of Van Vleck direct and Raman processes and of Orbach processes of electron spin relaxation in solution and isotropic crystals is discussed with reference to the modulation of the hyperfine coupling constant by the collision process. The mechanism is compared with that discussed by Kivelson [1] which involved electronic excitation: the present mechanism may be more effective in some situations.

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