Title: X-rays in practice,
Authors: Sproull, Wayne Treber, 1906-
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Book Company, inc.,
Year: 1946
Subjects: X-Rays; Radiation, Ionizing; X-rays
Contents: History of x-rays -- Fundamentals of x-ray tubes -- The continuous x-ray spectrum -- Characteristic x-ray spectra -- Absorption and scatterig; secondary x-rays -- Refraction of x-rays and their diffraction by ruled gratings -- X-ray generating equipment -- Rudiments of radioactivity -- X-ray detection, measurement, and registration -- Protection -- X-rays in the medical field (radiology) -- Industrial radiography -- Miscellaneous applications -- Crystallography before the discovery of x-ray diffraction -- Laws of x-ray diffraction in a crystal -- The bragg method od crystal abalysis and some petriment properties of actual crystals -- The laue method, the toration method, and other methods for a single crystal -- The Hull-Debye-Scherrer powder method -- Chemical analysis by x-ray diffraction -- Grain size and preferential orientation -- The measurement of stress and strain by x-ray diffraction; diffuse reflections -- X-ray diffraction by amorphous solids, liquids, and gases -- Additional applications of x-ray diffraction -- Electron diffraction and its applications.