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SECONDARY EMISSION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does secondary emission mean?
• SECONDARY EMISSION (noun)
The noun SECONDARY EMISSION has 1 sense:
1. the emission of electrons from a surface that is bombarded by higher energy primary electrons
Familiarity information: SECONDARY EMISSION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The emission of electrons from a surface that is bombarded by higher energy primary electrons
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("secondary emission" is a kind of...):
emission (the release of electrons from parent atoms)
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