Auger effect

noun

Auger effect

noun

/əʊˈʒeɪ ɪˈfɛkt/

Etymology Named for French physicist Pierre Victor Auger (1899–1993).

1

The secondary emission of an electron following the ionisation of a core electron of an atom.

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