Mossbauer Effect Definition
mœsbouər, môs-, mŏs-
noun
The phenomenon in which gamma rays from the nuclei of certain radioactive isotopes do not lose energy from the recoil of those nuclei if the nuclei are bound in the lattice of a crystal.
Webster's New World
Origin of Mossbauer Effect
After Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer (1929–2011), German physicist
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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