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Auger effect in British English
the excitation of electrons within an atom initiated by the absorption of energy and accompanied by the emission of an electron
noun: 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
noun: the spontaneous emission of an electron instead of a photon by an excited ion as a result of a vacancy being filled in an inner electron shell

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