An X-ray is a quick and painless procedure commonly used to produce images of the inside of the body. It's a very effective way of looking at the bones and can be used to help detect a range of conditions.-rays can be used to examine most areas of the body. They're mainly used to look at the bones and joints, although they're sometimes used to detect problems affecting soft tissue, such as internal organs. Problems that may be detected during an X-ray include: 1  bone fractures and breaks.
Spectrometer, Spectroscope, and Spectrograph. A spectrometer is any instrument used to probe a property of light as a function of its portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, typically its wavelength, frequency, or energy. The property being measured is usually intensity of light, but other variables like polarization can also be measured.
An early example of a spectroscope. Prisms split light by refraction; the resulting spectrum is measured by the spectroscope. In astronomy, a spectroscope may be used in conjunction with a telescope. A spectrophotometer measures how much light is reflected off of -- or absorbed by -- an object.