What is "diffraction patterns"

Usage examples of "diffraction patterns".

Luna is a silvery iridescent sphere, planed smooth down to micrometer heights, luminous with diffraction patterns.

Photographs of similar X-ray diffraction patterns were stacked on a small table to Dr.

There were intriguing diffraction patterns, unnatural ratios of infra-red versus other frequencies.

Only four molecules thick, the surface of the substance sparkled with a rainbow effect resulting from the geometric diffraction patterns formed by its constituent atoms.

LeFevre was only investigating electron-wave diffraction patterns to test certain aspects of the new unified-field theory.

Sub-electronic investigations have shown it to be fused into a single lump of metal and not all the most careful study of the diffraction patterns have sufficed to distinguish the discrete parts that had existed before fusion.

It hung above the Martian soil like some bizarre superimposed TV image, with a weird rim made up from seething diffraction patterns of light from a gray universe.