Roentgen rays
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Beyond eight hundred vibrations there is plenty of light, invisible to our eyes, known as chemical rays and probably the Roentgen rays.
From Among the Forces by Henry White Warren
Luckily, not even Roentgen rays could discover what a store of drawings, charts, and fortress plans I keep in my memory.
From The Coming Conquest of England by August Niemann
The operating rooms, kitchens, wards, rooms for operating by Roentgen rays, and even a chapel have been installed.
From With the Allies by Richard Harding Davis
Further investigations by Lord Kelvin, Beattie, Smolan, and Rutherford confirmed the fact that, like the Roentgen rays, the uranium rays not only acted upon the photographic plate but discharged electrified bodies.
From A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) Aspects Of Recent Science by Henry Smith Williams
The rays producing this glow were not the cathode rays, although apparently arising from them, and are what have since been called the Roentgen rays, or X-rays.
From A History of Science — Volume 3 by Henry Smith Williams
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