macroscopic cross-section

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The cross-section per unit volume of a given material for a specified process. For a pure @N04257@, it is the product of the @M03911@ and the number of target nuclei per unit volume; for a mixture of nuclides, it is the sum of such products.
Sources:
Orange Book, 2nd ed., p. 218 [Terms] [Book]
PAC, 1994, 66, 2513. (Nomenclature for radioanalytical chemistry (IUPAC Recommendations 1994)) on page 2517 [Terms] [Paper]
Citation: 'macroscopic cross-section' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 3rd ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2006. Online version 3.0.1, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1351/goldbook.M03674 RIS BibTex EndNote
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