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📅 MIT Science Bowl 2022🎓 HS🔄 Round 2#️⃣ Question 17 TOSS UP✍️ Short Answer

Researchers in the Drennan group at MIT are combining X-ray crystallography with other biophysical methods to gain a better understanding of molecular processes. During X-ray crystallography, atoms scatter X-ray waves, producing a regular array of spherical waves. Most of these waves cancel out through destructive interference, but some add constructively in specific directions as determined by what physical law?

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