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Crystallography with powders

Over the course of its long history, powder diffraction has provided countless insights into the properties of materials. It will continue to do so in the future, but with an emphasis on elucidating how materials respond to external stimuli.

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Figure 1: Observed (Yo) and calculated (Yc) powder neutron-diffraction pattern of monoclinic TiNb2O7 obtained by Rietveld refinement in 19747.
Figure 2: Experimental pair distribution function, measured in 1949 for a non-graphitic carbon prepared by pyrolysis of polyvinylidene chloride29.

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