AUGER EFFECT


Meaning of AUGER EFFECT in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ (ˌ)ō-ˈzhā- ]

noun

Etymology: Pierre V. Auger died 1993 French physicist

Date: 1931

: a process in which an atom that has been ionized through the emission of an electron with energy in the X-ray range undergoes a transition in which a second electron is emitted rather than an X-ray photon — called also Auger process

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