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Direct Ultramicroscopic Observation of Thermal Scattering in Sodium Chloride

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THERMALLY scattered light emitted from nominally very pure single crystals of sodium chloride is directly seen in ultramicroscopic examination of impurity centres1,2 using illumination at right angles to the direction of observation (Fig. 1).

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HEILMANN, G. Direct Ultramicroscopic Observation of Thermal Scattering in Sodium Chloride. Nature 208, 884–885 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/208884a0

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