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ablation comparison table

Subject	has inverse process	has initial phase	is a kind of	has domain	has final phase	has definition
spallation	condensation	solid	ablation	physics	gas	The process in which an incoming beam of particles or energy collides with a substance, reacts with it, and knocks off pieces of it.

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