Mössbauereffect

Möss·bau·er effect (mœsʹbou'ər, môsʹ-, mŏsʹ-) n.

The recoilless emission of gamma rays by radioactive nuclei of crystalline solids, and the subsequent absorption of the emitted rays by other nuclei.

  [After Rudolf LudwigMössbauer (born 1929), German physicist.]

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