Experiments on secondary radiation from gases and light solids subject to X-rays showed that the character of this radiation differs only very slightly from that of the radiation producing it, and that the energy of this radiation is proportional merely to the quantity of matter through which a beam of Röntgen radiation of definite intensity passes, being independent of the kind of matter.
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