The laser form of this phenomenon is used to experimentally determine the adhesion of thin films with substrates.  
In anthropology the term is used to refer to the process of making stone tools via pressure flaking and in mining it refers to the breaking of a rock face due to internal stresses.  The laser form of this phenomenon is used to experimentally determine the adhesion of thin films with substrates.  The more common nuclear form of this phenomenon was first named by Glenn Seaborg in his doctoral thesis on inelastic scattering of subatomic particles.  The modern nuclear process slams a high energy proton beam into heavy metal targets to produce neutral subatomic particles.  FTP name this process, the namesake of a new experimental facility in Tennessee, that can be used to produce an intense neutron beam.
In anthropology the term is used to refer to the process of making stone tools via pressure flaking and in mining it refers to the breaking of a rock face due to internal stresses.  
spallation