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elec'tron diffrac"tion



Physics.
the phenomenon whereby electron waves scattered by the regularly spaced atoms of a crystal produce diffraction patterns characteristic of the crystal structure and the wavelength.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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