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The charged-particle multiplicities produced in inelastic interactions
of O-16 ions at 3.7 and 60A GeV with emulsion nuclei are investigated
and compared with theoretical predictions. Results from the interacti
on with CNO and AgBr target nuclei are analysed in terms of negative b
inomial (NB) distribution. Data from other nucleus-emulsion collision
experiments have been used to fit an empirically proposed relationship
for the average value of total charged multiplicity as a function of
the geometrically determined number of interacting nucleons.