Timeline for Differences between gamma rays and X-rays
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| Oct 16, 2020 at 19:39 | comment | added | PM 2Ring | What Jon said. The modern convention is to distinguish x-rays from gamma rays by their origin, not their energy. However, astronomy & astrophysics still tend to use the older convention based on energy (or wavelength), so EM of >100 keV is called gamma rays. That's partly because it can be difficult to discover the mechanism of an astronomical EM source. | |
| Oct 16, 2020 at 18:06 | comment | added | Jon Custer | This is not completely true, but discipline specific. See physics.stackexchange.com/questions/509620/… for example. | |
| Oct 16, 2020 at 18:04 | history | answered | R.W. Bird | CC BY-SA 4.0 |