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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