diffraction
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During that brief interval, the researchers needed to record several properties of the material, including X-ray diffraction measurements capable of revealing its atomic arrangement.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
Using this concept, the team designed and experimentally demonstrated a three dimensional singular dielectric resonator capable of confining light below the diffraction limit in all three spatial dimensions.
From Science Daily ● May 21, 2026
The particles then traveled through three diffraction gratings generated by ultraviolet laser beams.
From Science Daily ● May 11, 2026
They successfully demonstrated matter-wave diffraction in a beam of positronium.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 28, 2026
About six weeks before I first arrived there, he had shown X-ray diffraction pictures of DNA which revealed a marked absence of reflections on the meridian.
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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