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The “Modified Scattered” X-Radiation

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MAY we now supplement what we have already told regarding the scattering of X-rays by stating that we now know quite definitely that even after the J-transformation has taken place in a scattered X-radiation and this has become a “modified scattered” radiation when its absorbability is measured in certain substances, it has, even after passing through those substances, precisely the same absorbability as the primary when measured in certain other substances.

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BARKLA, C., KHASTGIR, S. The “Modified Scattered” X-Radiation. Nature 117, 228–229 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/117228b0

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