A British X-ray with a light ten billion times brighter than the sun is to be used to reveal the secrets of statues, mummies, sarcophagi and other ancient artifacts to analyze their composition and how they were made.
What is a Synchrotron: A synchrotron is a huge scientific machine designed to produce very intense beams of x-rays and ultraviolet light. This “synchrotron light” can penetrate deep inside matter and allows scientists to investigate the world around us at the scale of atoms and molecules.
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