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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The angle between an incident x-ray beam and a set of crystal planes for which the secondary radiation displays maximum intensity as a result of constructive interference.

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[After Sir William Henry Bragg and Sir William Lawrence Bragg.]

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