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soft X-ray comparison table

Subject	is a kind of	has definition
X-ray	photon	A large band of electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths smaller than extreme ultraviolet light. A typical X-ray photon has over one thousand times as much energy as a photon of visible light.
soft X-ray	X-ray

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