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giva | 3 months ago

"X-ray light" sound a bit like beer soda.

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terminalshort|3 months ago

"X-ray" is just a word for light that falls within an arbitrary band of wavelength.

MyOutfitIsVague|3 months ago

Yes, but so are radio waves and gamma rays; it would still sound odd to hear somebody say "radio light" or "gamma light".

giantg2|3 months ago

I think you have it backwards - light is a term used for specific bands of the EM spectrum. Nobody is calling their FM radio waves light emissions. Unless this is a naming collison with the already established x-rays.