crystallography

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The doctrine or science of crystallization, teaching the system of forms among crystals, their structure, and their methods of formation.

A discourse or treatise on crystallization.

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Although crystallography can be used to characterize the disorder in an impure or irregular crystal, crystallography generally requires a pure crystal of high regularity to solve the structure of a complicated arrangement of atoms. Source: Internet

Before the development of X-ray diffraction crystallography (see below), the study of crystals was based on physical measurements of their geometry. Source: Internet

By contrast, macromolecular crystallography often involves tens of thousands of atoms in the unit cell. Source: Internet

Chesterman and Lowe, pp. 29–30 As cleavage is a function of crystallography, there are a variety of cleavage types. Source: Internet

Complementary neutron crystallography techniques are used to identify the positions of hydrogen atoms, since X-rays only interact very weakly with light elements such as hydrogen. Source: Internet

Computational approaches provide a cheaper and faster alternative to crystallography, but their results are more equivocal, since they do not produce empirical structures. Source: Internet

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