Sentences with phrase «photons ricocheted»
Working at the ESRF in Grenoble, France, they bombarded ice with powerful x-rays and studied the scattering patterns when the x-ray photons ricocheted off the electrons in the hydrogen bonds.
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Other photons from the laser beam would ricochet off the electrons and be boosted into high - energy gamma rays.
Predictions made more than 80 years ago suggest that this phenomenon allows photons to interact and ricochet away from one another.