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Figure 6: Incident rays (1 and 2) at angle θ on the planes of atoms in a crystal. Rays reinforce if their difference in path length (AB + BC) is an integer times the wavelength of the X ray.

Figure 1: The electromagnetic spectrum.

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Figure 1: The electromagnetic spectrum.

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British physicist and philosopher

Giacconi, Riccardo

Riccardo Giacconi

Italian physicist

Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen

Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen

German physicist

Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn

Swedish physicist

Silvanus Phillips Thompson

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