Physics A-Level
Polycrystalline graphite
What Polycrystalline graphite means in Physics A-Level, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Polycrystalline graphite
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Reference: OCR
A thin slice of this material contains a regular arrangement of carbon atoms that diffract the electrons passing through it.
Topics that use Polycrystalline graphite
- Wave–particle duality (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- Atomic spacing
- de Broglie wavelength
- Electron diffraction
- Experimental evidence
- Momentum
- Planck constant
- Wave–particle duality
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