Ebook: Crystallography

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 crystallographers, chemists, mineralogists, geologists and physicists. Based on the author's more than 25 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. This 2nd edition is the translation of the fifth German edition. The heart of the book is firmly fixed in geometrical crystallography. It is from the concept of the space lattice that symmetry operations, Bravais lattices, space groups and point groups are all developed. The symmetry of molecules is described including the resulting non-crystallographic point groups. Crystal forms and the relationship between point groups and physical properties are treated. Much emphasis is placed on the correspondence between point groups and space groups. The sections on crystal chemistry and X-ray diffraction are intended as an introduction to these fields.

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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 crystallographers, chemists, mineralogists, geologists and physicists. Based on the author's more than 25 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. This 2nd edition is the translation of the fifth German edition. The heart of the book is firmly fixed in geometrical crystallography. It is from the concept of the space lattice that symmetry operations, Bravais lattices, space groups and point groups are all developed. The symmetry of molecules is described including the resulting non-crystallographic point groups. Crystal forms and the relationship between point groups and physical properties are treated. Much emphasis is placed on the correspondence between point groups and space groups. The sections on crystal chemistry and X-ray diffraction are intended as an introduction to these fields.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-XIII
Introduction....Pages 1-1
The Crystalline State....Pages 3-8
The Lattice and Its Properties....Pages 9-20
Crystal Structure....Pages 21-26
Morphology....Pages 27-56
Principles of Symmetry....Pages 57-70
The 14 Bravais Lattices....Pages 71-114
The Seven Crystal Systems....Pages 115-117
Point Groups....Pages 119-182
Space Groups....Pages 183-212
The Interrelationship of Point Groups and Space Groups....Pages 213-215
Fundamentals of Crystal Chemistry....Pages 217-247
Studies of Crystals by X-Ray Diffraction....Pages 249-264
Crystal Defects....Pages 265-270
Appendix....Pages 271-278
Solutions to the Exercises....Pages 279-300
Back Matter....Pages 301-307

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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 crystallographers, chemists, mineralogists, geologists and physicists. Based on the author's more than 25 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. This 2nd edition is the translation of the fifth German edition. The heart of the book is firmly fixed in geometrical crystallography. It is from the concept of the space lattice that symmetry operations, Bravais lattices, space groups and point groups are all developed. The symmetry of molecules is described including the resulting non-crystallographic point groups. Crystal forms and the relationship between point groups and physical properties are treated. Much emphasis is placed on the correspondence between point groups and space groups. The sections on crystal chemistry and X-ray diffraction are intended as an introduction to these fields.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-XIII
Introduction....Pages 1-1
The Crystalline State....Pages 3-8
The Lattice and Its Properties....Pages 9-20
Crystal Structure....Pages 21-26
Morphology....Pages 27-56
Principles of Symmetry....Pages 57-70
The 14 Bravais Lattices....Pages 71-114
The Seven Crystal Systems....Pages 115-117
Point Groups....Pages 119-182
Space Groups....Pages 183-212
The Interrelationship of Point Groups and Space Groups....Pages 213-215
Fundamentals of Crystal Chemistry....Pages 217-247
Studies of Crystals by X-Ray Diffraction....Pages 249-264
Crystal Defects....Pages 265-270
Appendix....Pages 271-278
Solutions to the Exercises....Pages 279-300
Back Matter....Pages 301-307
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