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2012 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
1. Introduction
verfasst von : Dr. Walter Borchardt-Ott
Erschienen in: Crystallography
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Abstract
At the heart of crystallography lies an object – the crystal. Crystallography is concerned with the laws governing the crystalline state of solid materials, with the arrangement of atoms in crystals, and with their physical and chemical properties, their synthesis and their growth.
Crystals play a role in many subjects, among them mineralogy, inorganic, organic and physical chemistry, physics, metallurgy, materials science, geology, geophysics, biology and medicine. This pervasiveness is perhaps better understood when it is realized how widespread crystals are: virtually all naturally occurring solids, i.e. minerals, are crystalline, including the raw materials for chemistry, e.g. the ores. A mountain crag normally is made up of crystals of different kinds, while an iceberg is made up of many small ice crystals.