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X-Ray Diffraction Photograph
X-ray
diffraction has been a useful tool in understanding the structure of
solids. The lattice of atoms in a crystal serves as a series of barriers
and openings that diffracts X rays as they pass through. The diffracted
X rays form an interference pattern that can be used to determine the
spacing of atoms in the crystal. This precession photograph shows the
pattern resulting from X rays passing through a palladium coordination
complex, a compound with a palladium atom at the center of each
molecule.
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