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spin-flip collision comparison table

Subject	see also	is a kind of	has definition
collision		atomic process
spin-flip collision	21-cm radiation	collision	Collision between particles in which the direction of the spin angular momentum changes. Since the total angular momentum is conserved, the orbital angular momentum must be changed in magnitude or direction or both.

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