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B-axis

American  
[bee-ak-sis] / ˈbiˌæk sɪs /

noun

Crystallography.

PLURAL

B-axes

  1. the horizontal crystallographic axis that is in a right-left position.

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The exposed oxygen atoms were terminated as surface silanol groups, and 30 Å vacuum space was added to the b-axis direction.

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