Crystal System
Crystal System
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Solids
Amorphous Crystalline
An amorphous solid is any non-crystalline solid in which the
atoms and molecules are not organized in a definite lattice
pattern.
• Glass
• Plastic
• Gel
A crystal or crystalline solid is a solid material whose
constituents, such as atoms, molecules or ions, are arranged in a
highly ordered microscopic structure, forming a crystal lattice
that extends in all directions.
• Metals
• Salts
• Ordinary ice
Crystallography is the study
of atomic and molecular
structure.
Crystallography is the
experimental science of
determining the
arrangement of atoms in the
crystalline solids.
The smallest group of atoms which has the overall symmetry of
a crystal, and from which the entire lattice can be built up by
repetition in three dimensions.
There are 3 unit cell lengths a, b, and c and three unit cell angles
𝛼, 𝛽, and 𝛾. These six parameters of the unit cell called
dimensions or crystallographic elements.