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How to pronounce “diffraction”
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- Practice the English pronunciation of diffraction with real speech in context.
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- How we can use light to see deep inside our bodies and brains
a bit like Rosalind Franklin decoded this iconic image of X-ray diffraction
- Definition summary
- (physics) The bending of a wave around an obstacle.
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How to pronounce diffraction
How we can use light to see deep inside our bodies and brains
a bit like Rosalind Franklin decoded this iconic image of X-ray diffraction
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Meaning
- [Noun]
- (physics) The bending of a wave around an obstacle.
- (quantum mechanics) The breaking up of an electromagnetic wave as it passes a geometric structure (e.g. a slit), followed by reconstruction of the wave by interference.
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