Radiation trapping

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Radiation trapping, imprisonment of resonance radiation, radiative transfer of spectral lines, line transfer or spectral diffusion is a phenomenon in physics whereby radiation may be "trapped" in a system as it is emitted by one atom and absorbed by another.[1][2] [3]

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  1. ^ http://uigelz.ece.iastate.edu/Projects/RAD_TRAP/rad_trap.html
  2. ^ http://raptor.physics.wisc.edu/talk/part_2d2.htm
  3. ^ * Molisch, Andreas F. & Bernard P. Oehry (1998), Radiation Trapping in Atomic Vapours, Oxford: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0198538669 [link accessed June 18, 2006].
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