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New Technique for obtaining X-Ray Powder Patterns

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IN our letter in NATURE of November 161, we described a new technique for obtaining X-ray powder patterns using flat specimens. Dr. Brentano maintains2 that the method is, in its principles, the same as his focusing method. Dr. Brentano has always used beams diverging from a line source of X-rays, and it follows that for great source to specimen distances the diffracted beams are focused at glancing angle. This is the only resemblance between his method and ours.

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  1. Philips Industrial X-Ray Service Laboratory, 6a Ridgmount Street, W.C.1

    R. A. STEPHEN & R. J. BARNES

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STEPHEN, R., BARNES, R. New Technique for obtaining X-Ray Powder Patterns. Nature 137, 532–533 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137532a0

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