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CBYSTALS of turnip yellow mosaic virus, kindly sent to us by Dr. Kenneth Smith and Dr. Roy Markham (see Nature, July 17, p. 88), were examined both optically and by X-ray diffraction in this Laboratory. The crystals were small, isotropic, less than 0·1 mm. in size and ill-formed, but just sufficiently developed to indicate that they were octahedral bipyramids. The smaller crystals, first observed by Smith and Markham under a 1/12 oil immersion lens1, are better formed and display a better development of this form. Following Federov‘s law on the relation between lattice development and crystal form, these crystals should possess a face-centred lattice.
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BERNAL, J., CARLISLE, C. Unit Cell Measurements of Wet and Dry Crystalline Turnip Yellow Mosaic Virus. Nature 162, 139–140 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162139a0
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