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📅 NSB Round Robin 2020🎓 HS🔄 Round 12#️⃣ Question 3🌟 BONUS📝 Multiple Choice

Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab have made inorganic crystals of germanium sulfide that are arranged in a helical stack of thin sheets. They determined the structure of these crystals using X-ray crystallography. How did these scientists generate the requisite high-energy X-rays?

W) Rapidly decelerating neutral particles
X) Spallation of heavy elements
Y) Rapidly oscillating electric dipoles in an ultra-high-frequency antenna
Z) Centrifugal acceleration of charged particles
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