Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Berkeley Lab: Micro Worlds Project: Advanced Light Source
A discussion of the Advanced Light Source (ALS) facility and its use in material analysis and medicine.
Other
Simple Science: Hand It to the Animals
The innovative resource has students examine X-ray images of the ?hands? of different animals and then determine the function of each hand from its form. The activity has an interactive online version and a printable data sheet.
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Alexander Graham Bell
This biographical site includes a link to a United States House of Representatives resolution recognizing Antonio Meucci as the inventor of the telephone. It also includes information on Bell's (1847-1922) later scientific work.
NASA
Nasa: Material Analysis
Describes the use of alloys on the space shuttle, and how to analyze alloys using X-ray fluorescence.