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Sunyaev-Zel'dovich process comparison table

Subject	is a kind of	has definition
Compton scattering	scattering	Scattering of a photon due to the Compton effect (see also noncoherent scattering).
Sunyaev-Zel'dovich process	Compton scattering	Compton scattering between the photons of the cosmic microwave background radiation and electrons in galaxy clusters.

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