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Angliholic Posted 18 years ago
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an X-ray lab/room

0My brother works as a medical technician in an X-ray lab.02br
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0Yes - more or less. Laboratory implies that the room will be used to analyse the X-Rays after they've been taken [a place using X-Rays for research, such as a Physics department, would also have a laboratory, for example]. 0-

— Badegine

  • 0Yes - more or less.
  • Laboratory implies that the room will be used to analyse the X-Rays after they've been taken [a place using X-Rays for research, such as a Physics department, would also have a laboratory, for example].
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0Yes - more or less. Laboratory implies that the room will be used to analyse the X-Rays after they've been taken [a place using X-Rays for research, such as a Physics department, would also have a laboratory, for example]. Technically, using the word 'room' implies only that the X-Rays will be 01b00taken02b00 in there, not procressed/analysed as well.02br
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0 You don't have to say either. For example you could say: 01i00My brother works in X-rays as a madical technician02i00. Using the preposition 01i00in02i00 shows X-rays is a location rather than a line or topic.0-
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10Yes - more or less. Laboratory implies that the room will be used to analyse the X-Rays after they've been taken [a place using X-Rays for research, such as a Physics department, would also have a laboratory, for example]. Technically, using the word 'room' implies only that the X-Rays will be 11b10
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