The Basics of Crystallography and Diffraction (International Union of Crystallography Texts on Crystallography, 5)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: May 29, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780198505525
First sentence: The beautiful hexagonal patterns of snowflakes, the plane faces and hard faceted shapes of minerals and the bright cleavage fracture surfaces of brittle iron have long been recognized as external evidence of an internal order-evidence, that is, of the patterns or arrangements of the underlying building blocks.