x-ray
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As the flare intensified, X ray output surged dramatically, accelerating particles to speeds of 40 to 50 percent of the speed of light, or roughly 431 to 540 million km/h.
From Science Daily • Jan. 21, 2026
By tracking repeating patterns in both X ray and radio signals from the event, the researchers found that the disk and the jet were wobbling together.
From Science Daily • Dec. 18, 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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