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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
the diffraction phenomenon exhibited by a crystal bombarded with X-rays in such a way that each plane of the crystal lattice acts as a reflector.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
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Antonyms: none provided
History
Named after William Lawrence Bragg and his father William Henry Bragg, who proposed the idea in 1913.
