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Au⋅ger effect

[oh-zhey]
–noun Physics.
a nonradiative process in which an atom in an excited state undergoes a transition to a lower state by the emission of a bound electron (Auger electron) rather than by the emission of an x-ray.
Also called autoionization.


Origin:
1930–35; named after Pierre V. Auger (b. 1899), French physicist
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