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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
A unit of length (symbol xu) approximately equal to 0.1 picometres, used to quote the wavelength of X-rays and gamma rays.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: Siegbahn unit
Antonyms: none provided
History
After X-ray (x signifying the unknown).
