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nuclear resonance

nuclear resonance \nuclear resonance\ n. (Physics) The resonance absorption of a gamma ray by a nucleus identical to the nucleus that emitted the gamma ray.

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nuclear resonance

n. the resonance absorption of a gamma ray by a nucleus identical to the nucleus that emitted the gamma ray

Usage examples of "nuclear resonance".

As you say, it was like a nuclear resonance, but its lifetime was so many orders of magnitude shorter even than that of a resonance that some people were doubting it existed at all.

She jerked the foam padding away from her head and grimaced at the imposing banks of equipment: spindly nuclear resonance pickups, looming pancake magnet poles, ranks of digitizers.

And nuclear resonance dating methods show that the bronze pin they found hadn't been buried long enough.

The following few hours became an enjoyable blur of information about latex molding techniques, aquameters, nuclear resonance magnetometers and sonar scanning.