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Bragg's law

Bragg's law proper noun: a law that equates the angle (θ) between the incident and scattered ray to the spacing (d) between the crystal planes and the wavelength (λ) of the radiation - nλ=2d sin (θ),.

Proper noun

Bragg's law

  1. A law that equates the angle (θ) between the incident and scattered ray to the spacing (d) between the crystal planes and the wavelength (λ) of the radiation - nλ=2d sin (θ),

Origin of Bragg's law

Bragg diffraction was first proposed by Lawrence Bragg and his father William Henry Bragg in 1913.

Questions about Bragg's law

What does Bragg's law mean?
Bragg's law means a law that equates the angle (θ) between the incident and scattered ray to the spacing (d) between the crystal planes and the wavelength (λ) of the radiation - nλ=2d sin (θ),.
What part of speech is Bragg's law?
Bragg's law is a proper noun.

Words near Bragg's law in the dictionary

  1. Bragg peaks
  2. Bragg plane
  3. Bragg planes
  4. Bragg scattering
  5. Bragg scatterings
  6. Bragg's law
  7. braggable
  8. braggables
  9. braggadoccio
  10. braggadocia
  11. braggadocian

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