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  2. Molecular beam - Wikipedia

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    A molecular beam is produced by allowing a gas at higher pressure to expand through a small orifice into a chamber at lower pressure to form a beam of particles (atoms, free radicals, molecules or ions) moving at approximately equal velocities, with very few collisions between the particles.

  3. Effusion - Wikipedia

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    Effusion from an equilibrated container into outside vacuum can be calculated based on kinetic theory. [2] The number of atomic or molecular collisions with a wall of a container per unit area per unit time (impingement rate) is given by: =. assuming mean free path is much greater than pinhole diameter and the gas can be treated as an ideal gas.

  4. Plasma (physics) - Wikipedia

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    At high powers, the nonlinear part of the index of refraction becomes important and causes a higher index of refraction in the center of the laser beam, where the laser is brighter than at the edges, causing a feedback that focuses the laser even more. The tighter focused laser has a higher peak brightness (irradiance) that forms a plasma.

  5. Gaussian beam - Wikipedia

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    The equations below assume a beam with a circular cross-section at all values of z; this can be seen by noting that a single transverse dimension, r, appears.Beams with elliptical cross-sections, or with waists at different positions in z for the two transverse dimensions (astigmatic beams) can also be described as Gaussian beams, but with distinct values of w 0 and of the z = 0 location for ...

  6. Glossary of chemistry terms - Wikipedia

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    Also acid ionization constant or acidity constant. A quantitative measure of the strength of an acid in solution expressed as an equilibrium constant for a chemical dissociation reaction in the context of acid-base reactions. It is often given as its base-10 cologarithm, p K a. acid–base extraction A chemical reaction in which chemical species are separated from other acids and bases. acid ...

  7. Beam emittance - Wikipedia

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    where () is the dispersion at location s, is the ideal particle momentum, and is the root mean square of the momentum difference of the particles in the beam from the ideal momentum. (This definition assumes F=0.15) [1]: 91

  8. Mean free path - Wikipedia

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    Imagine a beam of particles being shot through a target, and consider an infinitesimally thin slab of the target (see the figure). [1] The atoms (or particles) that might stop a beam particle are shown in red. The magnitude of the mean free path depends on the characteristics of the system.

  9. Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy - Wikipedia

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    Simple interferometer with a beam-splitter and compensator plate. An ideal beam-splitter transmits and reflects 50% of the incident radiation. However, as any material has a limited range of optical transmittance, several beam-splitters may be used interchangeably to cover a wide spectral range.