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X-Rays in Practice

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THE description of this book as an encyclopædia is scardbly an exaggeration. To quote from the dust cover . . . “the book deals with the generation, absorption, scattering and diffraction of X-rays; measurement and recording of X-rays; X-ray equipment; industrial radiography; medical application; X-ray diffraction and crystallography; fluoro-scopy, automatic inspection, microradiography, gem coloration, etc.”. There are also some nuclear physics and electron diffraction, and it is indeed difficult to think of any other subject that might have been included.

X-Rays in Practice

By Dr. Wayne T. Sproull. Pp vii + 615. (New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co. Inc., 1946.)

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LIPSON, H. X-Rays in Practice. Nature 158, 811–812 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158811a0

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