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X-ray Tweet Definition of X-ray Like Definition of X-ray on Facebook
noun 
  1. Short wavelength electromagnetic radiation usually produced by bombarding a metal target in a vacuum. Used to create images of the internal structure of objects; this is possible because X-rays pass through most objects and can expose photographic film.
X-rays are light with a wavelength between 0.1 and 10 nm.
  1. (colloquial) A photograph made with X-rays. The proper term for this is "radiograph."
"The doctor ordered some X-rays of my injured wrist."
  1. An X-ray machine.
  2. The letter X in the ICAO spelling alphabet.
verb 
  1. (context, transitive, colloquial) To expose film with X-ray radiation, especially for the purpose of medical diagnostic evaluation. Properly, the way to express this is "take a radiograph of".
Of course there was nothing wrong with my left wrist. They X-rayed the wrong arm!"
adjective 
  1. Of or having to do with x-rays.
I had to put my bags through an scanner at the airport.
     
X-ray diffraction Tweet Definition of X-ray diffraction Like Definition of X-ray diffraction on Facebook
noun 
  1. (physics) The scattering of X-rays by the regular lattice of atoms or molecules in a crystal.
  2. (physics) The diffraction pattern so obtained.
  3. (analytical chemistry) The technique of using such patterns to determine that geometry of a crystal, or the arrangements of atoms in a molecule; X-ray crystallography.
     

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