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# 'shape : not a diamond'!
what kind of mickey-mouse crystal morphology/ontology is this!?

I'm er, joking, joking. Of course.
(, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 9:36, archived)
# I must admit that it's diffraction diagram was very discrete when it came around to my house.
(, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 9:38, archived)
# actually, knowing very little (if any) crystallography, I don't really know the significance of a discrete diffraction diagram
I guess it means that its easy to do magic fourier transforms to get the atom positions...low er B-factors..

edit : "In 1991, the International Union of Crystallography decided to redefine the term "crystal" to mean any solid having an essentially discrete diffraction diagram..."
(, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 9:44, archived)
# Hahaha I thought that too
(, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 9:42, archived)