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In a nuclear power plant, absorbers are used to control the fusion process.
To be more precise, absorbers slow down the process.
Some materials qualify as absorbers, one I remember is silver.
What I would like to know is:
What makes a material a good radiation absorber?
How can the "strength" of absorption be measured?
What quality - possibly in terms of (e.g. atomic or molecular) structure - of a
material makes one absorber material a stronger absorber than another?
How can absorbers and their strength be found by computation?
To be more precise, absorbers slow down the process.
Some materials qualify as absorbers, one I remember is silver.
What I would like to know is:
What makes a material a good radiation absorber?
How can the "strength" of absorption be measured?
What quality - possibly in terms of (e.g. atomic or molecular) structure - of a
material makes one absorber material a stronger absorber than another?
How can absorbers and their strength be found by computation?