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  <id>08718</id>
  <title>channeling effect</title>
  <longtitle>IUPAC Gold Book - channeling effect</longtitle>
  <doi>10.1351/goldbook.08718</doi>
  <code>08718</code>
  <status>current</status>
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      <id>1</id>
      <text>Range- (traveling distance) increasing effect caused by the decrease in interaction cross sections of the incident particles with atoms in a single crystal when a highly collimated particle beam impinges on a crystal along its principal axis or principal plane.
</text>
      <sources>
        <item>PAC, 2021, 93, 69. 'Vocabulary of radioanalytical methods (IUPAC Recommendations 2020)' on page 74 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2019-0302)</item>
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    </item>
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  <citation>Citation: 'channeling effect' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.08718</citation>
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  <accessed>2026-06-13T14:31:16+00:00</accessed>
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