Physics A-Level
X-ray production
What X-ray production means in Physics A-Level, as defined for OCR.
Definition of X-ray production
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Reference: OCR
Occurs when accelerated electrons are stopped at a metal target, the anode metal where X-rays are produced.
Topics that use X-ray production
- Nuclear fission and fusion (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- Alpha and beta decay
- Barium
- Binding energy
- Binding energy per nucleon against nucleon number curve
- Chain reactions
- Characteristic X-rays from shell transitions
- Compton effect
- Computer reconstruction of attenuation data
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