deexcitate

English

Etymology

de- +‎ excitate

Verb

deexcitate (third-person singular simple present deexcitates, present participle deexcitating, simple past and past participle deexcitated)

1. (physics, physical chemistry, quantum mechanics, intransitive, of a particle or a molecule) Alternative form of deexcite
   • 2002, William C. McHarris, Exotic Nuclear Spectroscopy‎^[1]:

     […] thus, automatically, cold compound systems have been selected, which deexcitate by evaporation of one or two neutrons.