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Diffraction

noun

When light passes sharp edges or goes through narrow slits the rays are deflected and produce fringes of light and dark bands.

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X-ray diffraction

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"Diffraction" Quotes from Famous Books

... from the fact of its coming in conveniently between Sun and Earth, so as to allow a brief glimpse of something startlingly beautiful which otherwise could never have been known, is probably responsible for only a very narrow ring of the inner radiance of pretty even breadth all round. This diffraction effect is accepted; but the problem still remains how wide this annulus may be, and whether it may vary in width from one eclipse to another. These questions once settled, the spurious structure may then be excerpted from the true. Indeed ...

— The Story of Eclipses • George Chambers

Words linked to "Diffraction" : X-ray diffraction, optical phenomenon, diffract