diffraction
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Because both components have equal mass, researchers have long sought to understand how such a system would behave when forming a beam and undergoing diffraction.
From Science Daily • Apr. 28, 2026
They successfully demonstrated matter-wave diffraction in a beam of positronium.
From Science Daily • Apr. 28, 2026
In addition to confirming its quantum properties, positronium diffraction could lead to practical applications.
From Science Daily • Apr. 28, 2026
The material can expand by as much as 5%, allowing researchers to directly form optical structures such as microlenses and diffraction gratings on its surface.
From Science Daily • Apr. 21, 2026
Several days after the fiasco with Bragg, the crystallographer V. Vand sent Max a letter containing a theory for the diffraction of X rays by helical molecules.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
Vocabulary lists containing diffraction
Give Me a Break!: Fract and Frag
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Waves and Wave Properties - Middle School
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