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   Erland Sommarskog to Mark Brader   
   Re: QFTCIBSI23 Game 4, Rounds 9-10 answe   
   16 Jul 23 11:17:44   
   
   From: esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:   
   > As you see at , Röntgen   
   > himself called the new rays "X-rays", but for a while they were   
   > also known as "Röntgen rays".   
   >   
      
   And still are in Swedish and a few more languages. (In a quick check   
   on Wikipedia, I found Finnish, Hungarian, Russian, Dutch, and, yes, German.)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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