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X ray

[eks-rey] / ˈɛksˌreɪ /


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

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

The resident sent us down for a chest X ray.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini




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