Crystallography

Das vorliegende Buch behandelt die Kristallographie mit dem Schwerpunkt Geometrische Kristallographie und richtet sich an alle Naturwissenschaftler, insbesondere an Chemiker, Mineralogen und Geologen. Auf der Basis des Raumgitters werden Symmetrie-Elemente, Bravais-Gitter, Raum- und Punktgruppen abgehandelt. Weitere Kapitel geben Einblick in die Kristallchemie, in röntgenographische Untersuchungsmethoden usw. Zahlreiche Übungsaufgaben mit Lösungen sollen dem Leser eine Erweiterung und Überprüfung ihres Wissensstandes ermöglichen.

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As a self-study guide, course primer or teaching aid, Borchardt-Ott's Crystallography is the perfect textbook for students and teachers alike. In fact, it can be used by anyone - chemist, minerologist or geologist - looking for a basic introduction to the subject. Based on the author's more than twenty years of teaching experience, the book has numerous line drawings designed especially for the text and a large number of exercises - with solutions - at the end of each chapter. Widely acclaimed in the original German edition, the English text has been fully revised to reflect international usage and standards. For example, the treatment of crystal morphology has been brought into line with the International Tables for Crystallography. The heart of the book is firmly fixed in geometrical crystallography. Much emphasis is placed on the correspondence between point groups and space groups. The section on crystal chemistry will serve as an introduction to the field.