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Except for the very outer envelope, the main carriers in the transport processes in the outer crust are
electrons, and they scatter mainly off ions (exceptions will be mentioned at the end of the
corresponding sections). Theoretical techniques for the calculation of the transport coefficients
in neutron star crusts are to a large extent borrowed from solid state physics, the classical
reference still remaining the book of Ziman [435]. However, one has to remember that the
density/temperature conditions within neutron star crusts are tremendously different from
those in terrestrial solids, so that special care concerning the approximations used should be
taken.
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