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Wikipedia: X-ray crystallography
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A technique in which the pattern produced by the diffraction? of x-ray?s through the closely spaced lattice of atoms in a crystal are recorded and then analyzed to reveal the nature of that lattice.
The material and molecular structure of a substance can often be inferred from the quantitative study of this pattern. It is widely used in chemistry and biochemistry to determine the structure of molecules.
- [Fourier transform]?
- [reciprocal space]?
- diffractometer?
- [molecular model]?
- [space group]?