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Nov 30, 2009
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im'pact param"eter



(in nuclear physics)
the perpendicular distance from the original center of a set of scattering particles to the original line of motion of a particle being scattered.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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