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It underwent structural and compositional analysis using various techniques, including X-ray diffraction, Rietveld analysis, inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry, and selected-area electron diffraction.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 2, 2024
Moreover, while deductive reasoning can guarantee the truth of conclusions if the premises are true, many times the premises themselves of deductive arguments are inductively known.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
In other cases she inductively reasons the meaning of a word after noticing it in different contexts.
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2021
Using a process called inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry, the device then identifies the shaving’s atomic makeup by the light it emits, like a tiny, dying supernova.
From The Verge ● Jun. 25, 2018
To these illustrations of growing heterogeneity, which, though deduced from known physical laws, may be regarded as more or less hypothetical, Geology adds an extensive series that have been inductively established.
From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Herbert Spencer
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