Recombination

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Recombination may refer to:

  • Carrier generation and recombination, in semiconductors, the cancellation of mobile charge carriers (electrons and holes)
  • Crossover (genetic algorithm), also called recombination
  • Genetic recombination, the process by which genetic material is broken and joined to other genetic material
    • Bacterial recombination
    • Homologous recombination
  • Plasma recombination, the formation of neutral atoms from the capture of free electrons by the cations in a plasma
  • Recombination (chemistry), the opposite of dissociation
  • Cage effect, a special kind of recombination reaction that appears in condensed phases
  • Recombination (cosmology), the time at which protons and electrons formed neutral hydrogen in the timeline of the Big Bang
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