diffraction
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The team also conducted detailed materials analysis and neutron diffraction experiments at ORNL's Spallation Neutron Source, a DOE Office of Science user facility.
From Science Daily • Mar. 10, 2026
She was the most experienced chemist and an expert in diffraction.
From BBC • Nov. 7, 2025
Watson became fascinated by the new technique of diffraction whereby X-rays were bounced off atoms to reveal their inner structures.
From BBC • Nov. 7, 2025
Once prepared, the optical signals pass through a diffraction operator that performs the feature extraction.
From Science Daily • Oct. 28, 2025
The first real clue to the nature of Venus came from work with a prism made of glass or a flat surface, called a diffraction grating, covered with fine, regularly spaced, ruled lines.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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