Sentences with phrase «electron beam destroys»

However, these electron beams destroy most forms of soft matter and are incapable of spectrally specific molecular excitation.

Not exact matches

Dwight Duston, director of science and technology at the Pentagon's Star Wars office, says the free - electron laser, once trumpeted as a weapon for destroying incoming enemy missiles, could be used to produce a beam of high - quality X-rays that would reduce a woman's exposure to radiation during mammography.

Just passing an electron beam through it once would contaminate it, destroying the precise step - pattern needed.

But the electron beam can destroy delicate molecules and tissues.

An X-ray beam of such intensity will, of course, destroy any microscopic object it irradiates, but with free - electron lasers the diffraction event is faster than the coulombic explosion, so data can still be obtained.