- inelastic collision
- noun Date: 1937 a collision in which part of the kinetic energy of the colliding particles changes into another form of energy (as heat or radiation)
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inelastic collision
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inelastic collision — Mech. a collision in which the total kinetic energy of the colliding bodies or particles is not the same after the collision as it was before (opposed to elastic collision). * * * … Universalium
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Inelastic scattering — In particle physics and chemistry, inelastic scattering is a fundamental scattering process in which the kinetic energy of an incident particle is not conserved (in contrast to elastic scattering). In an inelastic scattering process, some of the… … Wikipedia
