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inelastic
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inelastic
1. tissue lacking in elasticity.
2. in financial terms, lack of response in a variable, e.g. inelastic demand, when the demand for, say, veterinary services is not reduced by a downturn in the local economy.


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Neutrons can also scatter inelastically, to reveal the magnetic fluctuation spectrum of a material over wide ranges of energy (from about [10.
109]Cd [Gamma]-rays can also elastically scatter off of the calcium and phosphorus (and, to a lesser extent, oxygen) atoms in bone and inelastically scatter off all of the elements in the sample undergoing measurement (principally the bone, soft tissue, and skin).
 
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