Abstract
In this review it is proposed to discuss certain aspects of what is called “radiation damage”; that is, of the effects that can be produced in solids by the action of high-energy radiations such as are released in nuclear disintegrations. The subject of radiation damage has grown rapidly in recent years with the exploitation of nuclear energy, and is now so large that it could hardly be recounted thoroughly in other than a full-sized monograph. Partly this is because it has to do with many different kinds of high-energy radiations; for example, neutrons, electrons, α-particles, protons, deuterons, uranium fission fragments, γ-rays, and X-rays—each with its own particular characteristics as a damaging form of radiation; and partly because each of the main types of solids—metallic, ionic, covalent, and molecular—responds to irradiation in its own particular way.
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