Re: mass versus radiation resistance

[brian whatcott <inet@INTELLISYS.NET>]

> At 06:09 AM 4/10/01 -0500, brian whatcott wrote:
> > a dissipative effect is not restorative
At 09:02 4/10/01 -0400, John Denker responded:
> /snip/
> I agree radiation resistance is dissipative.  I'm not quite sure what
> "restorative" means, but I imagine radiation resistance doesn't "restore"
> anything under the usual conditions (low temperature et cetera).
/snip/

Restore has much the same linguistic associations as restitution,
a word that may be more familiar.
 This is a term with some currency in physics - as an objective
measure of the energy loss (dissipation) vs energy recovery
in the term,'coefficient of restitution', for example.






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