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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The recoilless emission of gamma rays by radioactive nuclei of crystalline solids, and the subsequent absorption of the emitted rays by other nuclei.
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- noun physics the
resonant andrecoil -free emission andabsorption ofgamma rays byatoms in the solid state; the basis of a type ofspectroscopy with applications in bothphysics andchemistry
Etymologies
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[After Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer, (1929–2011), German physicist.]
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From Rudolf Mössbauer German phycisist
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