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Why exactly does helium-3 work better than helium-4 as regarding pumping of neon to a metastable level? Is it to do with its velocity distribution at a given temperature (faster than He-4), or redistribution of energy after collisions with neon atoms. There might be a better coincidence with levels due to helium hyperfine structure or isotope shift though this most likely work for only one line.