Diffraction Pattern (IMAGE)

Uppsala University

Diffraction Pattern

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This is the mimivirus diffraction pattern. The X-ray pulse lasted only for a millionth of a billionth of a second. The pulse heated the virus particle to 100,000 degrees centigrades but only after it had left the sample.

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Janos Hajdu

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