X-ray

['eksreɪ]

X ray A penetrating electromagnetic radiation, usually generated by accelerating electrons to high velocity and suddenly stopping them by collision with a solid body, or by inner-shell transitions of atoms with atomic number greater than 10; their wavelength ranges from about 10(-5) angstrom to 10 angstroms, the average wavelength used in research being 1 angstrom ['eksrei]

x-ray ['eksreɪ]

English thesaurus

X-ray ['eksreɪ]

abbr., chem., scient.

Röntgen beam technology

abbr., scottish

X (phonetic alphabet)

chem.