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inverse Compton effect comparison table

Subject	has antonym	is a kind of	has definition
scattering		radiation direction modification	The process whereby light is absorbed and reemitted in all directions, with essentially no change in frequency. Scattering by free electrons was the dominant source of opacity in the early universe.
inverse Compton effect	Compton scattering	scattering	The collision between a photon and an energetic (cosmic-ray) electron, in which some of the energy of the electron is transferred to the photon.

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