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...that the x-ray was discovered purely by accident? When German physicist Wilhelm Konrad von Roentgen was experimenting with cathode rays in 1895, he put an activated Crookes tube in a book and went out to lunch. When he returned, he discovered that a key that had also been placed in the book showed up as an image on the developed film!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5834057 | Method of making chemically engineered metastable alloys and multiple components nanoparticles Nanoparticles of a mixed oxide precursor are reduced to form particles of a anostructured metastable alloy having a majority metal and a minority metal. Additional heating enriches the surfaces of the particles with respect to the minority metal, thus form... | 11/10/1998 |
