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PPS 96 Course Material Index  A selection of reference material Copyright Birkbeck College 1995-1997 all rights reserved worldwide Updated 26th Jul 96...
http://www.cryst.bbk.ac.uk/PPS2/course/index.html

A pictoral guide to using these techniques especially for working out structural information, largely through the use of illustrative examples.
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Interactive guide to diffraction  This is a pictorial guide to crystal structures and their Fourier transforms useful for teaching diffraction physics. The examples of structures and their Fourier transform, presented in this tutorial, have grown from courses on diffraction physics taught at the Department...
http://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/mine...e/crystal/teaching/teaching.html

Crystallography groups in mineralogy are composed of 32 classes of symmetry. To illustrate these symmetry elements, example crystalline forms for each symmetry class are represented by a JAVA applet.
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Crystallography  Crystallography section in the Mineralogy Database is moving to a new, permanent domain. Please make sure to bookmark the new location at http webmineral.com/crystall.shtml. Crystal Groups and Classes Crystallography groups are composed of 32 classes of symmetry derived from observations...
http://web.wt.net/~daba/Mineral/crystall.html

A site introducing the properties of crystals with a cubic unit cell.
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Introduction to Cubic Crystal Lattice Structures  The outstanding macroscopic properties of crystalline solids are rigidity, incompressibility and characteristic shape. All crystalline solids are composed of orderly arrangements of atoms, ions, or molecules. The macroscopic result of the microscopic arrangements of the atoms, ions or molecules is...
http://www.okstate.edu/jgelder/solstate.html

Contains the latest information on how and why crystals form in foods, and how this information can be used to control crystallization. General organization of Crystallization in Foods is set according to the steps that occur during crystallization.
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Crystallization in Foods by Richard W. Hartel  This book contains the latest information on how and why crystals form in foods, and how this information can be used to control crystallization. General organization of Crystallization in Foods is set according to the steps that occur during crystallization....
http://www.chipsbooks.com/crysfood.htm

Commercial e-learning course teaching how to determine a crystal structure from powder diffraction data.
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Structure Determination by Powder Diffractometry Course  Learn how to determine a crystal structure from powder diffraction data with experts help. The SDPD (Structure Determination by Powder Diffractometry) Internet Course is accomplished in 10 sessions, exclusively on Internet and asynchronous. Students are expected to work at least...
http://www.cristal.org/course/

Lesson on the geometry and symmetry of elements and minerals using Polymorf, a new math and science manipulative. The topological approach is used to characterize the structure of crystals in terms of linked polyhedra.
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Polymorf Knowhere  Discover how the structure of space determines the shape of things I. Preface II. Geometry rules! III. Structure matters (symmetry of polyhedra structure of crystals) Introduction. Atomic packing The Pythagorean system Simple cubic packing (CP Symmetry elements defined Body centered...
http://www.polymorf.net/knowhere.htm

A step-by-step guide to solving these problems based on the use of an example.
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Difference Patterson Tutorial  Our treatment of the difference Patterson function is based upon a course given by Gregory A. Petsko on protein crystallography and on a variety of text books. In order to follow this tutorial, you should have learned from previous lectures...
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~brenner/pr613.html

Manual with information about (membrane) protein crystallization for X-ray crystallography.
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X-tal protocols  Changed the layout of all the pages. What I am working on: Extending the page about screening for crystallization conditions. Things to do: Methods: add microbatch. Score: include more (stereo) pictures. Detergent: concentration determination of detergents Due to problems with...
http://www.xtal-protocols.de

For future crystallographers.
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Kevin Cowtan's Picture Book of Fourier Transforms  This is a book of pictorial 2-d Fourier Transforms. These are particularly relevant to my own field of X-ray crystallography, but should be of interest to anyone involved in signal processing or frequency domain calculations. Contents: Introduction Book of Crystallography...
http://www.ysbl.york.ac.uk/~cowtan/fourier/fourier.html

Explains crystallography procedures and is primarily intended for internal users of their analysis facilities, as well as a reference for students carrying out the work.
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MSU Chemistry Crystallography Service  Crystallography Service The Crystallography Service is the Michigan State University Department of Chemistry's primary resource, not simply for performing crystal structure determinations, but for providing crystallographic instruction and training to graduate (and some undergraduate) students and for providing these students...
http://www.chemistry.msu.edu/Fac.../Crystallography/crys_serv.shtml