Researchers from the around the world have brought pages of a Gutenberg Bible and other historic documents to the SLAC National Laboratory in Northern California to be scanned by a unique type of particle accelerator called a synchrotron.
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00:00 Uncovering Secrets of the Printing Press
1:26 What is a synchrotron? (SSRL)
3:04 X-ray fluorescence imaging (XRF)
4:15 Gutenberg and the printing press
4:54 Scanning Gutenberg and Confucian texts
6:05 What did they find?
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