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IN a letter to NATURE of December 4, Prof. J. A. Gray pointed out that a study of radiations of shorter wave-length than 0.02 Å.U. is complicated by the scattered radiations accompanying them, about which little is known. That gamma rays under certain experimental conditions appear to become less penetrating as they pass through matter was shown by Dr. Gray in 1913. Recently it has been shown by me (Phil. Mag., Oct. 1926, p. 785) that the scattered radiations were considerably softer than the gamma rays producing them, and evidence was given of a comparatively soft radiation from air penetrated by gamma rays. Confirmatory experiments have since been made, a brief reference to which may not be without interest.
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CLARK, L. The Scattering of Gamma Rays. Nature 119, 121–122 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119121b0
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