What Is Photodisintegration

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Multiple Choice

What is photodisintegration?

• A) the heating and ejection of mass from the surface of a normal star by the radiation from an orbiting neutron star
• B) the destruction of a star by the pressure of the radiation inside it
• C) the splitting apart of atomic nuclei by gamma rays
• D) the ejection of a neutron or proton from an atomic nucleus, accompanied by the emission of a gamma ray

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