L-line

[ el-lahyn ]

nounPhysics.
  1. one of a series of lines (L-series ) in the x-ray spectrum of an atom corresponding to radiation (L-radiation ) caused by the transition of an electron to the L-shell.

Origin of L-line

1
First recorded in 1965–70

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