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| Jun 5, 2011 at 7:13 | comment | added | Steve Byrnes | @gigacyan -- Yes, the reflection is due to total internal reflection (sometimes called total external reflection in this case!) No, that doesn't mean the reflectivity has to be 100%! There's scattering and there's absorption. | |
| Dec 17, 2010 at 8:23 | comment | added | gigacyan | Refractive index of most (all?) materials is less then 1 for X-rays and at very small angles (since n=0.9999) you would have total internal reflection. | |
| Dec 17, 2010 at 0:40 | history | answered | Chad Orzel | CC BY-SA 2.5 |