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x-ray diffraction

n. 1 (context physics English) The scattering of X-rays by the regular lattice of atoms or molecules in a crystal. 2 (context physics English) The diffraction pattern so obtained. 3 (context analytical chemistry English) The technique of using such patterns to determine that geometry of a crystal, or the arrangements of atoms in a molecule; X-ray crystallography.

Usage examples of "x-ray diffraction".

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

This equipment came from diverse technological epochs and had been smuggled into this, the Outer Kingdom, from a variety of sources, but all of it contributed to the same purpose: It surveyed the microscopic world through X-ray diffraction, electron microscopy, and direct nanoscale probing, and synthesized all of the resulting information into a single three-dimensional view.

It surveyed the microscopic world through X-ray diffraction, electron microscopy, and direct nanoscale probing, and synthesized all of the resulting information into a single three-dimensional view.

He cleared the screen and brought up the data from his X-ray diffraction tests of the protein coat.

Over a dozen humanoid shapes glowed yellowish white, flat as X-ray diffraction images.

Crick was supposed to be completing a thesis on the X-ray diffraction of large molecules.

There was no mass spectrometer, no X-ray diffraction equipment, no electrophoresis apparatus, and certainly no DNA sequencer.