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Language:enStatus: Obsolete
Term: diffusion
Synonym1: scattering
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Definition: process by which the spatial distribution of a beam of radiation is changed when it is deviated in many directions by a surface or by a medium, without change of frequency of its monochromatic components

NOTE 1 – A distinction is made between selective diffusion and non-selective diffusion according to whether or not the diffusing properties vary with the wavelength of the incident radiation.

NOTE 2 – See Note 2 to 845-04-42.


Publication date:1987
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