The early scientific history of crystals and X-rays

Crystals, although long admired for their regularity and symmetry, were not studied scientifically until the 17th century. Let's take a look at the early history of crystallography.

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Principle of X-ray diffraction

X-ray crystallography is a technique used to determine the atomic and molecular structure of a crystal, where the crystal structure causes the incident X-ray beam to diffract into many specific directions.

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