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Pilgrim@beehaw.org
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So why are X-rays the only ones that are just X if the rest are Greek

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Malgas@beehaw.org
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In an 1895 paper, Röntgen used “X” to label an unknown type of radiation. And the name stuck, despite his later objections. (Some languages do call them Röntgen rays.)

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Pleb@feddit.de
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German for example does this.

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Ix-Strahlung certainly doesn’t roll off the tongue.

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