Ebook: Mixed Crystals
- Tags: Crystallography, Biophysics and Biological Physics, Inorganic Chemistry, Physical Chemistry
- Series: Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences 33
- Year: 1984
- Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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The two-word title of this book can only give an indication about its content and approach to the subject it deals with. In the course of time, the term has gradually become somewhat blurred. The reason is easy to see: similar problems are now more and more frequently studied by different branches of natural science. The term "mixed crystals" has acquired specific connotations in physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. One and the same term can now serve as a name for things which are either not quite the same or sometimes quite different. And this is precisely what happened to the two words in the title of the book. One of them, the term "crystal", for which crystallography had an un ambiguous definition, is now employed by biologists to describe the structure of cell membranes and by chemists who use it to denote degrees of polymer crystallinity. "Crystal" has thus become a broad term that can help describe any solid, or just a condensed state of a substance, if the solid has a suf ficient degree of order in the arrangement of its components. But the book is called "~lixed Crystals". The other word in its title, the adjective "mixed", has also developed several meanings. It is now thought ap plicable to both homogeneous and heterogeneous systems, that is, to crystals composed of different molecules and also to solids that are a mixture of crys tals with different structures.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-XIV
Introduction....Pages 1-16
Phase Diagrams....Pages 17-48
Particle Packing in a Crystal....Pages 49-84
Free Energy of a Solid Solution....Pages 85-110
Heterophase Systems....Pages 111-125
X-Ray Scattering....Pages 126-141
Intermetallic Compounds....Pages 142-163
Solid Solutions of Metals....Pages 164-180
Inorganic Solid Solutions....Pages 181-199
Conditions of Formation of Substitutional Organic Solid Solutions....Pages 200-216
Ordering in Organic Solid Solutions....Pages 217-226
Structures of Organic Solid Solutions....Pages 227-274
Complexes....Pages 275-318
Polymers....Pages 319-353
Biopolymers....Pages 354-369
Back Matter....Pages 371-388
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-XIV
Introduction....Pages 1-16
Phase Diagrams....Pages 17-48
Particle Packing in a Crystal....Pages 49-84
Free Energy of a Solid Solution....Pages 85-110
Heterophase Systems....Pages 111-125
X-Ray Scattering....Pages 126-141
Intermetallic Compounds....Pages 142-163
Solid Solutions of Metals....Pages 164-180
Inorganic Solid Solutions....Pages 181-199
Conditions of Formation of Substitutional Organic Solid Solutions....Pages 200-216
Ordering in Organic Solid Solutions....Pages 217-226
Structures of Organic Solid Solutions....Pages 227-274
Complexes....Pages 275-318
Polymers....Pages 319-353
Biopolymers....Pages 354-369
Back Matter....Pages 371-388
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