bremsstrahlung
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English
Etymology
Borrowed from German Bremsstrahlung (“braking or deceleration radiation”), which had been coined in German by Arnold Sommerfeld from bremsen (“to brake”) + Strahlung (“radiation”) in 1909, and was first used in English by Arthur Edward Ruark and Harold Urey in 1930.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈbɹɛm.ʃtrɑ.ləŋ/, /ˈbɹɛms.ʃtrɑ.ləŋ/, /ˈbɹɛm.strɑ.ləŋ/, /-lʊŋ/, /-lʌŋ/
Noun
bremsstrahlung (countable and uncountable, plural bremsstrahlungs)
- (physics) The electromagnetic radiation produced by the deceleration of a charged particle, such as an electron, when it is deflected by another charged particle, such as an atomic nucleus.
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