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Crystals
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Unit cells, packing, theoretical density and X-ray diffraction.


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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Laue showed in 1912 that crystals diffract X-rays. William Lawrence Bragg, a research student at Cambridge, read the spots as reflections from planes of atoms: waves reflected by neighbouring planes a distance d apart reinforce when their path difference is a whole number of wavelengths,">

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