Roentgen ray
noun
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Roentgen ray
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roentgen ray
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noun
Etymology
Origin of Roentgen ray
First recorded in 1895–1900
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His thought is as luminous as a Roentgen ray.
From The Life Radiant by Lilian Whiting
What miracles are wireless telegraphy, flying-machines, the Roentgen ray!
From Unicorns by James Huneker
In view of the discovery of the X or Roentgen ray, the ability to see through a stone wall does not seem so strange as it did before that discovery.
From Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism How to Hypnotize: Being an Exhaustive and Practical System of Method, Application, and Use by A. Alpheus
Nothing could more vividly bear out this gentleman than contemplation of the possibilities of the Roentgen ray.
From Peeps at People by Robert Cortes Holliday
But nothing less than the Roentgen ray would have revealed the young man, who was stealthily watching the ferocious buck.
From Two Boys in Wyoming A Tale of Adventure (Northwest Series, No. 3) by Edward Sylvester Ellis
Dr. Lawrence N. Smith of Boston reported to the doctors that, in 750 cases, he found that roentgen ray treatment reduced the severity of the paroxyms and shortened the course of the disease.
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