X-rays
What the most common lab x-ray source?
Copper
This technique uses Bragg's Law to describe the lattice parameters in a crystal
X-ray diffraction (XRD)
Mike worked at this synchrotron before coming to CU!
Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL)
This person demonstrated the relation between characteristic X-ray energy and atomic number
Henry Moseley
This is the state bird of Colorado
lark bunting
This element is used to filter out copper k-beta radiation on the Rigaku
Nickel
This x-ray characterization technique is commonly used to find the thickness of a thin film
X-ray reflectivity (XRR)
This synchrotron has been shut down for upgrades the last few years
Advanced Photon Source (APS) at Argonne National Lab
This father son duo won the Nobel Prize in 1915 for their contributions to crystal structure determination
William and Lawrence Bragg
The mass of the Earth is mostly made up of these two element
Oxygen (30%) and Iron (32%)
What energy does the Molybdenum anode in the Rigaku produce? (nearest keV)
17.45 keV
This X-ray characterization technique can be used to obtain particle size information
Small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS)
This synchrotron is close to the Alps for skiing...
European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF)
This person described the diffraction condition in reciprocal space
Max von Laue
This interstellar X-ray source emits X-rays with a period of seconds to minutes
X-ray pulsar
This type of radiation is background for lab-source XRD, but the main radiation source for synchrotrons
Bremsstrahlung
What three modes can X-ray absorption spectroscopy be done in?
Total electron yield, fluorescence, transmission
This synchrotron's storage ring is under athletic fields
Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS)
X-ray crystallographer that measured the pair distribution of carbon
Rosalind Franklin
This was the first medical x-ray image
woman's hand with a ring
This phenomenon is responsible for observable intensity showing up at forbidden Bragg reflections
Umweganregungen
This technique shares an acronym with the federal program guaranteeing continued health care coverage
Coherent Bragg Rod Analysis (COBRA)
This is the only synchrotron used by the Toney Group that operates counter-clockwise
Super Photon ring-8 GeV (SPring-8)
This person won the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for solving the atomic structure of molecules such as penicillin and insulin, using X-ray crystallography
5000 mrem