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X ray

[eks-rey] / ˈɛksˌreɪ /


x-ray


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To examine those features, the team used CT scanning technology, assembling a stack of X ray images into a detailed three dimensional model.

From Science Daily • Feb. 11, 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

They had discovered the X ray, the cathode ray, the electron, and radioactivity, invented the ohm, the watt, the Kelvin, the joule, the amp, and the little erg.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson




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