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A SOLID body is a mechanical system in equilibrium, an example of atomic engineering, with balance of stresses in the component parts. Analysis by X-ray methods, and more recently by those of electron diffraction, has given us a scale plan of its component parts. To what extent can we explain the way in which the atoms are arranged, and the properties of the body as a whole, by considering the forces which act between the atoms?
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BRAGG, W. The Architecture of the Solid State*. Nature 128, 210–212 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/128210a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/128210a0