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Science 29 August 1997:
Vol. 277. no. 5330, p. 1213
DOI: 10.1126/science.277.5330.1213
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MATERIALS SCIENCE:
Shining a Bright Light on Materials

Daniel Clery

Each of the world's three major regions of scientific influence--North America, Europe, and Japan--now has a powerful new source of "hard," or high-energy, x-rays in the shape of racetracklike particle accelerators called synchrotrons. Science takes a look at how this new generation of facilities has developed, prior to offering a tour of the ways in which these machines' unsurpassed beam quality and experimental conditions are opening new windows on everything from biomolecules and polymers to magnetic materials and Earth's core.

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