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    Electron capture (K-electron capture, also K-capture, or L-electron capture, L-capture) is a process in which the proton-rich nucleus of an electrically...
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    An electron capture detector (ECD) is a device for detecting atoms and molecules in a gas through the attachment of electrons via electron capture ionization...
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  • of electron capture ionization. The electron affinity is positive when energy is released on electron capture. In solid state physics, the electron affinity...
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    same. In electron capture, an inner atomic electron is captured by a proton in the nucleus, transforming it into a neutron, and an electron neutrino is...
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    Electron-capture dissociation (ECD) is a method of fragmenting gas-phase ions for structure elucidation of peptides and proteins in tandem mass spectrometry...
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    electron capture is a decay mode of an atomic nucleus. For a nuclide (A, Z) with a number of nucleons A and atomic number Z, double electron capture is...
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    molecule M. Adding an electron through an ion-ion reaction is called electron-transfer dissociation (ETD). Similar to electron-capture dissociation, ETD induces...
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  • Electron capture ionization is the ionization of a gas phase atom or molecule by attachment of an electron to create an ion of the form A−{\displaystyle...
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    type called an electron capture supernova. ... In an electron capture supernova, as the core runs out of fuel, gravity forces electrons in the core into...
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    produces antineutrinos). In electron capture, some proton-rich nuclides were found to capture their own atomic electrons instead of emitting positrons...
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