x-ray microscope

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An instrument using x-rays to render a highly magnified image.

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"He brought Ray Charles to the mix as an influence on rock & roll," E Street Band guitarist Steven Van Zandt once raved.
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An x-ray two hours later confirms my hunch: my tibia (the big bone behind the shin) is snapped clean in two.
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This is admittedly a loaded question, but do you feel James Earl Ray really killed Martin Luther King Jr.?
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Thanks to CompStat and strategies added by Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, crime continued to decline.
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“Getting out of X band is on option,” said one senior Air Force official.
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He thought they were now in touch with our troops at "X" but that they had been through some hard fighting to get there.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I|Ian Hamilton
Crystals of urea nitrate or oxalate (Fig. 19) will soon appear and can be recognized with the microscope.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
W was a Watchman, and guarded the door; X was expensive, and so became poor.
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A ray of Consciousness is passed over that impression and you re-read it, you re-awaken the record.
Assimilative Memory|Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)
In both conditions chemic tests will show hemoglobin, but in the latter the microscope will reveal the presence of red corpuscles.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd