Short description Crystals and Crystal Structures provides an introductory text for students and others who need to understand the subject without necessarily becoming crystallographers. Using the book enablea the reader to understand scientific papers and articles describing a crystal structure or use crystallographic databases with confidence.
From the contents Preface.
1 Crystals and crystal structures.
2 Lattices, planes and directions.
3 Two-dimensional patterns and tiling.
4 Symmetry in three dimensions.
5 Building crystal structures from lattices and space groups.
6 Diffraction and crystal structures.
7 The depiction of crystal structures.
8 Defects, modulated structures and quasicrystals.
Appendices.
Appendix 1 Vector addition and subtraction.
Appendix 2 Data for some inorganic crystal structures.
