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I do indeed. I'm a protein crystallographer/biochemist with very little physics background. In trying to understand how diffraction occurs, I came across the questions above. While I now have a vague understanding of scatter and prominent direction of diffraction, I'm now wondering how...

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How does elastic scatter occur? I assumed elastic scatter is a result of energy being absorbed by an electron, entering a higher energy shell, then falling, in a single step, back to its original shell. In this manner, I assumed the x-ray released would have the same energy as the one absorbed...

Hello, This is a multi-part question that stems from understanding how X-ray diffraction occurs in crystals (eg. protein crystals). 1. Diffraction occurs when Bragg's Law is satisfied, but I'm sure the waves aren't actually being reflected. The x-ray's are scattering. What type of...