• Question: What is crytallography?

    Asked by crack69 to Susana on 19 Jun 2013.
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      Susana Teixeira answered on 19 Jun 2013:

      Crystallography is the study of the structure of crystals.

      Crystals are made of many copies of the same molecule all aligned and oriented in the same way, and this gives crystals properties that we can use to trace back the structure of the molecule.

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