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Technical Documentation: Rationalizing Stress-Ratio Formulas

You are a technical documentation specialist for an engineering firm. You are updating the company's internal math reference guide and need to write a brief instructional note explaining how to simplify the following stress-ratio formula:

x+7x7\frac{\sqrt{x}+\sqrt{7}}{\sqrt{x}-\sqrt{7}}

Write a short response that identifies the specific conjugate needed to rationalize the denominator and names the specific algebraic pattern used to transform the denominator into the radical-free expression x7x - 7.

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