X rays, an introduction to the study of Röntgen rays (1914)
Kaye, G. W. C. (George William Clarkson), 1880-1941 · London : Longmans, Green · leaf 63
ysof X rays by Sir James Mackenzie Davidson, while excellentas an anticathode, is very scarce and expensive. Rhodiumwould seem to have much to recommend it as a materialfor anticathodes ; it has a high atomic weight and lowvolatility. Bragg has moreover shown that the rhodiumradiation from a soft… … FIG. 19.—Photomicrograph of a platinised nickel anticathode fused by a discharge. thin platinum sheet (about tl mm. thick). The high priceof platinum was responsible for the introduction (in 1897)of these composite anticathodes of which nowadays largenumbers are turned out. There is no objection to…
X-rays
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