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The basics of crystallography and diffraction
- Author / Creator
Details
- Creator
- Christopher Hammond
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Second edition
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2001
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 331 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780198505525, 0198505523, 9780198505532, 0198505531
- OCLC
- ocm45387359
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [317]-322) and index.
- X-ray photograph of zinc blende (Friedrich, Knipping and von Laue, 1912) -- X-ray photograph of deoxyribonucleic acid (Franklin and Gosling, 1952) -- 1. Crystals and crystal structures -- 2. Two-dimensional patterns, lattices and symmetry -- 3. Bravais lattices and crystal systems -- 4. Crystal symmetry: point groups, space groups, symmetry-related properties and quasiperiodic crystals -- 5. Describing lattice planes and directions in crystals: Miller indices and zone axis symbols -- 6. The reciprocal lattice -- 7. The diffraction of light -- 8. X-ray diffraction: the contributions of Max von Laue, W. H. and W. L. Bragg and P. P. Ewald -- 9. The diffraction of X-rays -- 10. X-ray diffraction of polycrystalline materials -- 11. Electron diffraction and its applications -- 12. The stereographic projection and its uses -- App. 1. Useful components for crystallography model-building and suppliers -- App. 2. Computer programs in crystallography -- App. 3. Biographical notes on crystallographers and scientists mentioned in the text -- App. 4. Some useful crystallographic relationships -- App. 5. A simple introduction to vectors and complex numbers and their use in crystallography -- App. 6. Systematic absences (extinctions) in X-ray diffraction and double diffraction in electron diffraction patterns