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Scattering 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.
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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.
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John Tyndall.
John Tyndall
Irish physicist
Maurice Goldhaber
American physicist
Clifford G. Shull
American physicist
Herschbach, Dudley R.
Dudley R. Herschbach
American chemist and educator
Hendrik Anthony Kramers
Dutch physicist

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