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Relation of the crystal-structure of some carbon compounds to those of graphite and diamond1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

William H. Bragg*
Affiliation:
University College, University of London

Extract

It must be our aim to correlate the external appearance of a crystal, and its physical properties also, with the arrangement of the atoms inside and the forces that join the atoms together. We might hope to gain so much knowledge on these points that, given a certain set of atoms, it would become possible to anticipate the design of their arrangement and to describe all the characteristics of the crystalline substance as consequences. The analysis of crystals by means of X-rays has given us a little help along this road, and we begin to see certain principles in broad outline.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1922

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Footnotes

1

Fuller details with diagrams are given in a Presidential Address to the Physical Society : Sir W. H. Bragg, 'The structure of organic crystals.' Proc. Phys. Soc., 1921, vol. 34, pp. 33-50.

References

1 Fuller details with diagrams are given in a Presidential Address to the Physical Society : Sir W. H. Bragg, 'The structure of organic crystals.' Proc. Phys. Soc., 1921, vol. 34, pp. 33-50.