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  • noun Plural form of diffraction.

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  • With his fellow scientists he has determined the geometric structures by means of X-ray diffractions and by using modern quantum mechanical calculations has been able to determine and, in many cases, predict the stability and reactions of the molecules under varying conditions.

    James M. Gentile: The Pivotal Role of the Scientist-Educator James M. Gentile 2011

  • With his fellow scientists he has determined the geometric structures by means of X-ray diffractions and by using modern quantum mechanical calculations has been able to determine and, in many cases, predict the stability and reactions of the molecules under varying conditions.

    James M. Gentile: The Pivotal Role of the Scientist-Educator James M. Gentile 2011

  • He will side with neither Newton nor Grimaldi regarding diffractions and inflections.

    The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

  • The real was only probably real, a nexus in endlessly expanding diffractions of the could-be; yet through it beat an unmercifully sharp counting, naught, one, one-naught, one-one, one-naught-naught, one-naught-one; and from this starkness there spiraled the beauty and variousness of all the snowflakes that will ever be, from idiocy came harmony, from moving nothingness arose power.

    The Unicorn Trade Anderson, Poul and Karen 1984

  • With his fellow scientists he has determined the geometric structures by means of X-ray diffractions and by using modern quantum mechanical calculations has been able to determine and, in many cases, predict the stability and reactions of the molecules under varying conditions.

    Press Release: The 1976 Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1976

  • It was the ring of Necessity whereby we are all begirt; happy he for whom a kind heavenly Sun brightens it into a ring of Duty, and plays round it with beautiful prismatic diffractions; yet ever, as basis and as bourne for our whole being, it is there.

    Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • Hence, only reflections and simple diffractions can occur, as can be observed in these two screenshots:

    NetBeans Highlights 2010

  • Much information comes from measuring the reflections and diffractions of shock waves caused by earthquakes.

    New Haven Independent 2009

  • As the process is repeated, diffractions from different angles give the overlapping views needed for the computer to construct a 3-D image of the structure.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009

  • You can simulate x-ray or neutron powder diffractions for any displayed crystal, simulate electron microscope diffraction patterns, visualize reciprocal lattice - and mainpulate stereographic projections.

    VersionTracker: Mac OS X 2008

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