Radiation trapping

Radiation trapping, imprisonment of resonance radiation, radiative transfer of spectral lines, line transfer or radiation 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]

References

Primer on Collisions
- Molisch, Andreas F.; Oehry, Bernard P. (1998), Radiation Trapping in Atomic Vapours, Oxford: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-853866-9, retrieved June 18, 2006.

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