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As W. L. Bragg first showed, when a beam of soft X-rays is incident on a cleavage plane of mica, a well-defined proportion of the beam suffers a reflection strictly in accordance with optical laws. In addition to this generally reflected beam, Bragg has shown that for certain angles of incidence, there occurs a kind of selective reflection due to reinforcement between beams incident at these angles on successive parallel layers of atoms.
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JACOT, E. The Reflection of X-Rays. Nature 92, 423–424 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/092423c0
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