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0. Synchrotron > 1. Electron Gun > 2. The Linac > 3. Dipole Magnets > 4. Vacuum > 5. Undulator > 6. Beamlines

This animation shows a diffraction experiment. Watch the light as it travels through the optics – can you see it change colour and shape? The pattern produced at the end of the experiment is called a diffraction pattern, and is unique to the molecule in the crystal being studied. We use these patterns to work out the position of atoms in the original sample.

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