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Language:enStatus: Standard
Term: mean free path
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Definition: in a given medium, average distance that particles of a specified type travel between successive interactions of a specified type

NOTE The mean free path may thus be specified either for all interactions, i.e. total mean free path, or for particular types of interaction such as scattering, capture, or ionization.


Publication date:2011-04
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