The radiation they generate is tapped at various points , to create “beam lines” for things like X-ray crystallography.
Economist(Dec 20, 2016)
He and his colleagues used X-ray crystallography to obtain the first image of the ribosome’s molecular structure.
New York Times(Dec 04, 2016)
At the time of my arrival, Francis’ theories spread far beyond the confines of protein crystallography.
James D. Watson, Double Helix(1968)