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x-ray

[eks-ray] / ˈɛksˌreɪ /


X ray


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Fontaine examines the x-ray of his broken leg while in hospital in 1962.

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026

"Many have dreamt about finding this critical point but the means have not been available before the development of the x-ray lasers."

From Science Daily ● Mar. 29, 2026

"I don't see an ICE agent looking at an x-ray machine, because you're not trained in that," he said on CNN's "State of the Union."

From Barron's ● Mar. 22, 2026

A technical take is more like an x-ray that might pinpoint unhealthy symptoms a bit sooner.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026

It was as though I had put on a pair of spectacles whose power was that of an x-ray enabling me to see deeper into the lives of men.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright

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

J. D. Bernal, the crystallographer, would later call them the “most beautiful X ray photographs of any substance ever taken.”

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee


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