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Transitions which do not involve the absorption or emission of radiation are not affected by selection rules.
Radiationless transition between levels, such as between the excited S = 0 and S = 1 states, may proceed quickly enough to siphon off a portion of the S = 0 population before it spontaneously returns to the ground state.
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