RE: Spelling

["Minnema, Douglas" <Douglas.Minnema@ns.doe.gov>]

For what it's worth, my Webster's dictionary contains the following
definitions:

	x-radiation (n): 1. exposure to X rays. 2. radiation composed of X
rays.

	x-ray (vt, often capitalized): to examine, treat, or photograph with
X rays.

	X ray (n):  1. any of the electromagnetic radiations of the same
nature as visible radiation but of an extremely short wavelength less than
100 angstroms that is produced by bombarding a metallic target with fast
electrons ...[sorry, too much to type] 2. a photograph obtained by the use
of X rays.

Hope this helps.

Doug Minnema, PhD, CHP
Defense Programs, DOE
<Douglas.Minnema@ns.doe.gov>


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Dave Derenzo [SMTP:dave@uic.edu]
> 
> The first two are right but I'm not certain about the last.  I do not 
> profess to be a grammar expert.  Questions . . .  Is "x ray" one or two 
> words?  Is "x-ray" one or two words?
> 
> At 03:47 PM 02/29/2000 -0600, you wrote:
> 
> >The x rays from the x-ray machine were discovered by Roentgen, who named
> >them X-rays.
> >
> >Did I get that right?
> >
> >John Hamrick
> >Umetco Minerals Corporation
> 
> 

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