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Bragg's law

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Bragg's law  (brgz)
n.
The fundamental law of x-ray crystallography, n = 2dsin, where n is an integer, is the wavelength of a beam of x-rays incident on a crystal with lattice planes separated by distance d, and is the Bragg angle.

[After Sir William Henry Bragg and Sir William Lawrence Bragg.]

Bragg's law
n
(Physics / General Physics) the principle that when a beam of X-rays of wavelength λ enters a crystal, the maximum intensity of the reflected ray occurs when sin θ = nλ/2d, where θ is the complement of the angle of incidence, n is a whole number, and d is the distance between layers of atoms
[named after Sir William Henry Bragg (1862-1942), and his son, Sir Lawrence Bragg (1890-1971), British physicists]


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Consider Bragg's Law, where n[lambda] = 2d sin[theta], [lambda] is the x-ray wavelength, and 2d the crystal lattice spacing in [Angstrom], and [theta] the angle the crystal makes with the sample.
 
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