A question about the Inglis-Teller limit?

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Do anyone knows the term "the Inglis-Teller limit", which is relevant to the ionization of Rydberg molecules?
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An atom looses it's outer bound states into a continuum if it's in a plasma, because the total field a bound electron sees becomes that of the nucleus plus that of the surrounding electrons. The Inglis-Teller limit is the last bound state, or alternatively the last discrete line in the emission spectrum, depending on the context.
 
The disappearance of the lines is because of the electron screening effect?
 

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