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optical pumping
noun
, Physics, Optics.
- a method for increasing the number of atoms or molecules occupying higher energy levels by irradiating them with light of the proper frequencies to raise them to those levels.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of optical pumping1
First recorded in 1950–55
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