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📅 2023 MIT Science Bowl High School Invitational🎓 HS🔄 Round 4#️⃣ Question 8🌟 BONUS✍️ Short Answer

MIT scientists shot X-rays towards a crystal surface. The smallest angle with the surface at which they observed the rays reflecting was at 30 degrees from the surface. In nanometers, what is the wavelength of the X-ray, if the distance between two adjacent atoms is 1 nanometer?

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