Inorganic Crystal Structure

The text provides a system which depicts each type of polyhedran in a uniform way - octahedra by line-shading (usually) one face, tetrahedra by dotting, and so on. The system accommodates inorganic, mineral and metallurgical structures and examines their similarities.

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Inorganic Crystal Structures provides a system which introduces order into the vast, and still growing, mass of facts on crystal structures. The treatment is comprehensive and adaptable enough to be applied to structures not covered here. Each type of polyhedron is depicted in a uniform way - octahedra by line-shading (usually) one face, tetrahedra by dotting, and so on. A few difficult structures are described in more than one way. This system is preferable to the more 'three-dimensional' drawings such as clinographic projections, for many very complex structures yield readily to it. Further, the system readily accommodates inorganic, mineral and metallurgical structures, revealing their many similarities. This text will be of benefit to solid state chemists and physicists, materials scientists, metallurgists, mineralogists, ceramists and crystallographers.