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It is found that if a neutron suffers an elastic collinear collision with deuterium at rest, fractional loss of its energy is\[{{p}_{d}}\]; while for its similar collision with carbon nucleus at rest, fractional loss of energy is\[{{P}_{c}}\]. Then ratio of \[{{P}_{d}}\,to\,{{P}_{c}}\] will be:

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(3.17)