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Re:X-rays reveal censored portions of Marie Antoinette’s let... by boomboomsubban on Sunday October 03, 2021 @02:38PM (#28739464)
From the article

>So when Fabien Pottier and several colleagues at the Museum of Natural History's Research Center for the Conservation of Collections (CRCC) took on the task of uncovering the censored portions of letters between Marie Antoinette and von Fersen, they naturally turned to similar techniques.

That doesn't sound like developing the method was their primary goal.

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Re:X-rays reveal censored portions of Marie Antoinette’s let... by Armisael16 on Sunday October 03, 2021 @06:21PM (#28741013)
Right, the article is garbage. The paper is in an open-access journal. You can just go read it.
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Re:X-rays reveal censored portions of Marie Antoinette’s let... by boomboomsubban on Sunday October 03, 2021 @07:42PM (#28741537)
The paper also sounds like the technique was developed to read these letters, and that it will hopefully be useful elsewhere.
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