x-ray
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At the facility, a synchrotron particle accelerator generated an intense X ray beam capable of scanning many specimens quickly.
From Science Daily • Mar. 10, 2026
Using multi-scale synchrotron X ray techniques and a high-resolution transmission electron microscope, the researchers observed that reactions inside single-crystal particles do not occur evenly.
From Science Daily • Dec. 29, 2025
And there can be a bleakness to the light; it’s like an X ray, penetrating everything.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 15, 2014
It is only the X ray that can tell us the internal arrangement of the crystal.
From Scientific American • Jun. 28, 2012
They had discovered the X ray, the cathode ray, the electron, and radioactivity, invented the ohm, the watt, the Kelvin, the joule, the amp, and the little erg.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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