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In this technique, “frame overlap” can spoil the measurement if a chopper is used and the energy spectrum of the source is too broad. In analogy to NMR, a variant of this technique using polarized beams is called “spin echo.” This technique controls the difference between initial and final wavevector in “constant-Q mode,” which has been implemented since the 1950s with “triple axis” configurations. Bertram (*) Brockhouse and Clifford Shull won a Nobel for this technique, which can measure bulk properties due to the beam's high penetrating power. This technique often uses a spallation source to generate the incident particle beam, which then undergoes elastic or inelastic collisions with the analyte. For 10 points, (-5[1])what technique probes a material’s structure by observing the deflection of uncharged particles? ■END■ (0[1])

ANSWER: neutron scattering [accept neutron diffraction or neutron spectrometry or neutron crystallography; prompt on scattering or diffraction or crystallography; reject any answer with the word “X-ray”]
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JJ TsaiRutgers DiasporaMaryland A112-5
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2023 BHSU @ Northwestern02/25/2023Y580%20%40%87.00
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