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Fig. 4

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Evolution of the upper metallicity limit. The soild line denotes the upper metallicity limit in the metal-enriched region of IGM. The dashed line denotes the upper metallicity limit in the galaxies whose progenitors were polluted via the genetic channel. The dotted line denotes the critical metallicity Zcrit = 10-3.5 Z.

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