x-ray diffraction

1. 1.

   the scattering of X rays by the atoms of a crystal; the diffraction pattern shows structure of the crystal

   Broaderdiffraction

Questions about x-ray diffraction

What does x-ray diffraction mean?

x-ray diffraction means "the scattering of X rays by the atoms of a crystal; the diffraction pattern shows structure of the crystal".

Is x-ray diffraction a common word?

x-ray diffraction is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.