internal conversion
noun
1 Physics the conversion of energy from one form to another within a particular system; especially (in later use) a process in which the energy of a gamma-ray photon emitted by a decaying nucleus is given up to an orbital electron, causing the electron to be emitted from the atom.
2 Physical Chemical the radiationless transition of a molecule or atom from one state to another of lower energy but the same multiplicity.
Origin
Early 20th century.
- boride
- boring
- boringly
- boringness
- bork
- Borlaug, Norman Ernest
- borlotti bean
- Bormann, Martin
- born
- Borna disease
- born-again
- born and bred
- born digital
- borne
- Bornean
- Borneo
- born-free
- Bornholm
- Bornholm disease
- born in (or out of) wedlock
- born in (or to) the purple
- bornite
- Born, Max
- born on the wrong side of the blanket
- boro-