Abstract
We describe the results of a study of the mean lifetime of molecular clouds based on actual observations. Using the model of growth from cloud-cloud collision and observations of 13CO along the galactic equator between longitudes 27°.85 and 40°, we derive a lower limit of 1 × 10 9 yr for the lifetime of the interstellar molecular clouds
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