In 1895, the German physicist Wilhelm
Conrad Röntgen (1845–1923) accidentally
discovered a kind of radiation whose nature
he could not determine, and which he
therefore called X-rays. He experimented
with burst ionization and used for this purpose
a screen covered with a thin film of
fluorescent material [BaPt(CN)4].
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