I must admit that it's diffraction diagram was very discrete when it came around to my house.
actually, knowing very little (if any) crystallography, I don't really know the significance of a discrete diffraction diagramI 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..."
(edit : "In 1991, the International Union of Crystallography decided to redefine the term "crystal" to mean any solid having an essentially discrete diffraction diagram..."
The Alchemist king of the needlessly complicated,
Mon 8 Jun 2009, 9:44,
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