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Since their discovery by Wilhelm Conard Röntgen, X rays have played a significant role in our lives: they make the unseen in our bodies visible; they enhance our security in air travel; they make possible nondestructive testing of a wide variety of materials. And through x-ray diffraction and spectroscopy they make it possible to probe the order of matter at the atomic level.
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