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Diffuse Spots in X–Ray Photographs

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IN a recent letter1 Mrs. Lonsdale reports that the shapes of certain “diffuse spots” in the pattern due to mono–chromatic X–rays which have been scattered by sodium are in agreement with calculations made by Jahn, and points out that this is the more noteworthy because the calculations had to take into account the peculiar anisotropy of the elastic constants of sodium.

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  1. NATURE, 148, 628 (1941).

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  2. Proc. Roy. Soc., 179, 51, 94 (1940).

  3. NATURE, 146, 509 (1940); Proc. Roy. Soc., A, 179, 54 (1940).

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BRAGG, W. Diffuse Spots in X–Ray Photographs. Nature 148, 780 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/148780a0

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