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Do all the electrons that absorb a photon come out as photoelectrons?

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In photoelectric effect, we can abserve that most electrons get scattered into the metal by absorbing a photon.
Thus, all the electrons that absorb a photon doesn't come out as photoelectron, Only a few come out of metal whose energy becomes greater than the work function of metal
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