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The discovery of X-rays

Enrich your PhysicsThis Enrich your Physics article contains links to:X-rays are photons, quanta of radiation, appearing on the electromagnetic spectrum between ultraviolet and gamma radiation. Nowadays we accept their existence as a matter of course. However, at the time of their discovery X-rays must have seemed miraculous since, at a stroke, in many cases, the requirement to cut open the body of a patient simply to...

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