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- noun Plural form of
T-ray .
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Examples
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T-rays (as the name suggests) have frequencies in the terahertz band (from 300 gigahertz to three terahertz)— also sometimes called the THF (or tremendously high frequency) band.
Week in Words 2012
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New Flavor of Beams T-rays It didn't take long for a potential prizewinner to come along as researchers described a new method of creating Terahertz, or T-rays, which are currently used by full-body security scanners.
Week in Words 2012
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T-rays can also penetrate the human body by almost half a centimeter, and have already been used to detect and help treat skin and breast cancers.
Book Give-Away Contest: Week 1 winner, Week 2 begins! ewillett 2008
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Jackson is part of a team of engineering researchers who have successfully used T-rays to detect colored paints and a graphite drawing of a butterfly through four millimeters of plaster.
Book Give-Away Contest: Week 1 winner, Week 2 begins! ewillett 2008
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And the same characteristics that enable researchers to use T-rays to see sketches and murals through paint and plaster could allow security personnel to identify all kinds of hazardous substances that X-rays would miss because they zip right through them without stopping.
Book Give-Away Contest: Week 1 winner, Week 2 begins! ewillett 2008
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T-rays are also responsiive to differences in material composition, which makes them useful for detecting tumors and counting the change in your pocket.
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Scientists say T-rays are emitted by pretty much everything.
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Networked computers could have a transmitter and a receiver each, with files and e-mails being beamed around the room via T-rays, removing the need for a tangle of wires connecting the machines.
Honey, Who Shrank the Circuits? Lakshmi Sandhana 2002
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The T-rays are ideal candidates for medical imaging because they are too large to scatter randomly off cell walls, but small enough to provide images with useful resolution.
Honey, Who Shrank the Circuits? Lakshmi Sandhana 2002
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T-rays could even be used for new forms of wireless communication.
Honey, Who Shrank the Circuits? Lakshmi Sandhana 2002
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