The distribution of ionic charges has been measured for 12 C recoils from the elastic scattering of 10-MeV deuterons in carbon targets down to a thickness of 0.3 Mg/cm 2 . The charge distribution from the thinner targets is distinctly nonequilibrium, indicating that "instantaneous" effects of the atomic and nuclear processes which produced the recoils are being observed, unmodified by electron-exchanging interactions with matter.
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