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roentgen
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rontgen \R["o]nt"gen\, Roentgen \Roent"gen\, a. Of or pertaining to the German physicist Wilhelm Konrad R["o]ntgen, or the rays discovered by him; as, R["o]ntgen apparatus.
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
The roentgen or röntgen (symbol R ) is a legacy unit of measurement for the exposure of X-rays and gamma rays up to several megaelectronvolts . It is a measure of the ionization produced in air by X-rays or gamma radiation and it is used because air ionization ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1896, in Roentgen rays "X-rays," in recognition of German physicist Wilhem Conrad Röntgen (1845-1923), who discovered X-rays in 1895. As a unit of exposure to radiation, it is attested from 1922, proposed in French in 1921.
Usage examples of roentgen.
If it continues to bother, I can send you to the city for a Roentgen ray picture of the bones.
The Roentgen rays have not proven their value is greater than the risk yet.
While preparing an experiment on cathode rays, Roentgen accidentally discovered X-rays when he passed a current through a partially-evacuated glass tube shrouded in cardboard and made a chemically-treated paper glow on the other side of the room.
The anniversary of the date when Roentgen saw inside himself is the date in the novel when, at E.
A part of this noise dropped to hard roentgen radiation, which did not reach the surface of Quinta because the atmosphere absorbed it.
But I was only thinking how curious it was that a rare genuine antique like that Georges Jacob screen had turned up in a dump like that village shop, with a superb valuable fake like the Roentgen bureau in the same yard.
It seemed to March an ironical outcome of all this spiritual severity that one of the greatest modern scientific discoveries should have been made in Wurzburg, and that the Roentgen rays should now be giving her name a splendor destined to eclipse the glories of her past.
He watched the Roentgen reading, stripped off his jacket, then took another reading.
Sterilizing Reddy Kilowatt in roentgens of radioactive glow in a dark playhouse.
The Cajuns started calling the spills of strontium roentgens the red-hot chili peppers cancer.
The twilight of man trying to live peaceably with carcinogens, roentgens, and Reddy Kilowatt stomping on his very ass.
Finally, they sat up, Ricky looking spectacularly handsome despite the roentgens cranking through out him in toxicity levels unparalleled.
Even located upon the scaffolding, several feet above the flood, Seven winced at the thought of what the invisible roentgens were surely doing to his own cellular structure.
Instead I was exposed to uncountable roentgens of death images-and smells and sounds and tactile sensations-which were beyond the apprehension of the five senses I share with other human beings but which registered and were read upon the Geiger counter of my sixth sense, my clairvoyance.
The number of roentgens would have put any safety officer before that into screaming fits, and made a lawyer slaver.