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Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The electromagnetic radiation produced by the acceleration of an electrically charged particle, as when an electron is deflected in the electric field of an atom or molecule.

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  • noun the electromagnetic radiation produced by the acceleration of a charged particle, such as an electron, when it is deflected by another charged particle, such as an atomic nucleus

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[German : Bremse, brake (from Middle Low German premse, from pramen, to press) + Strahlung, radiation (from strahlen, to radiate, from Strahl, ray, from Middle High German strāle, from Old High German strāla, arrow, stripe; see ster- in Indo-European roots).]

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German Bremse, brake + Strahlung, radiation

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Examples

  • And a quark star would give off a dim light (called bremsstrahlung emission), unlike a black hole, emitted by a thin layer of electrons on its surface.

    Signs of the Times 2009

  • This sort of faster-than-light communication seems possible in LR, and LR would not violate the measured speed limits on light for things like radio waves and bremsstrahlung radiation.

    Are Changes Brewing and How Does the Mind Fit In? 2008

  • So an accelerating charged particle not only has electromagnetic radiation (like bremsstrahlung and radio waves) associated with it, but it has the basic electrostatic field surrounding it, and that field moves lock step instantaneously with the particle.

    Are Changes Brewing and How Does the Mind Fit In? 2008

  • This sort of faster-than-light communication seems possible in LR, and LR would not violate the measured speed limits on light for things like radio waves and bremsstrahlung radiation.

    Are Changes Brewing and How Does the Mind Fit In? 2008

  • So an accelerating charged particle not only has electromagnetic radiation (like bremsstrahlung and radio waves) associated with it, but it has the basic electrostatic field surrounding it, and that field moves lock step instantaneously with the particle.

    Are Changes Brewing and How Does the Mind Fit In? 2008

  • The basement was crowded with wires, mismatched surplus Laboratory Capacitors from Bell Labs good thing Murph worked security there, it certainly helped with the “midnight requisitions”, a jumble of Magnatrons, Tesla single node vacuum tubes using bremsstrahlung effect waves focused through Geissler tubes to create a a vertical ionized channel that would open up a dimensional gateway to another possible alternate universe.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Small Pepsi challenge. 2009

  • Turning to more energetic collisions, he calculated with Heitler the bremsstrahlung emitted by relativistic electrons, and the production of electron pairs by high energy gamma rays.

    Hans Bethe - Biography 1972

  • Other potential DT compounds like LiDT, LiB (DT) 4, have more electrons and the bremsstrahlung situation is even worse.

    Next Big Future 2010

  • They come off as bremsstrahlung from energetic electrons 1-100

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

  • E 1.6: A high-energy electron hitting a dense medium generates additional electrons by two coupled processes, bremsstrahlung and production of electron-positron pairs.

    Scientific Blogging 2009

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  • "breaking radiation"

    June 20, 2008

  • No, braking radiation: bremsen "brake", as an electron might have to do passing near a nucleus.

    June 10, 2009

  • Of course, of coarse, I just can't spell.

    May 28, 2010

  • I'm sure you'll hear back from qroqqa next year.

    May 28, 2010