Meanings
- uncountableThe science of microscale ballistics.
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A multi-institution US research team has combined some creative chemistry, fluorescence microscopy and laser-driven microballistics to gain a clearer view of just what happens in a high-strain-rate impact, and to tease out the relative contribution of different kinds of energy dissipation within the target (Nat. Commun., doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-52663-1).
2024 October 7, Stewart Wills, “A Deeper View of High-Speed Impacts”, in Optics & Photonics News
Origin
From micro- + ballistics, itself from ballista + -ics or by surface analysis, ballistic + -s.
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