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A recent complete set of nitrogen atom–molecule collision cross sections has been used to evaluate the dissociation–recombination kinetics in hypersonic boundary layer flows. The results show strong differences of the present approach with the corresponding results obtained by extrapolation of bound-to-bound transitions to the continuum (i.e. the so-called ladder-climbing model).