Collisional excitation

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Orange Book

ORANGE BOOK DEFINITION IUPAC. Analytical Division. Compendium of Analytical Nomenclature (the Orange Book). Definitive Rules, 1979 (see also Orange Book 2023)
Collisional excitation
An ion/neutral species process wherein there is an increase in the reactant ion's internal energy at the expense of the translational energy of either (or both) of the reactant species.
IUPAC 1997 Orange Book Chapter 12
Index of Orange Book Terms

See also

• Collision Induced Dissociation
• Collisional Activation

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