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Other sources of information about crystal structures and
lattices can be found at these sites, which are in no
particular order. Listing of a commercial site is not an
endorsement of any product which may be offered for sale at
that site. Note that we have no control over the content of
outside links.
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Clicking on one of these links will open the page within the
current window (or frame, if you are using our framed version). To open
the page in another window, outside of our frames, use the
"open link in new window" option on your browser (the mouse
button-2 in Netscape).
Space Groups
General Crystallographic Sites
- Google's
Science > Physics > Crystallography directory has
several sites with Crystallographic information.
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The American
Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database, from the
Mineralogical Society of America, may put this page out of
business. Go there, click on the mineral you want, and it
gives you the space group and atomic positions. It even
includes Fortran code to sort the database files.
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The Mineralogy Database lists thousands
of mineral species, including crystallography, structure, composition, etc.,
plus nice pictures.
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Carnegie Mellon University maintains
an alloy database, with
structures
and enthalpy of formation data for stable and metastable structures of
many alloy systems,
generated from electronic structure calculations.
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Introduction
to Crystallography and Mineral Crystal Systems
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Wikipedia's
articles on Crystal
Systems and Crystal
Structure.
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Indigo Instruments makes Molecular
Models which can be used to visualize the structures on
these pages.
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Structures of Simple Inorganic Solids contains four
lectures from the first year inorganic chemistry course at
Oxford.
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VRML Structure Type gallery has many structures available
to be displayed in VMRL format.
- The
Strukturtypen-Datenbank (in German) also offers VRML and
GIFs of many structures.
- ``Making
Matter -- The atomic structure of materials'' has
pictures and a discussion of various crystal structures.
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If you have a Chime
plugin (unfortunately unavailable for most Unix-like
systems) you can look at many of these structures within
your browser via the Structures
of Inorganic Crystals page from LSU.
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Three dimensional representations of some crystal
structures from Louisiana State University. (You can get
the same effect from the stereo mode of RasMol.)
- Here's another site offering a ``complete
information guide to minerals.''
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Much of the history of crystallography is given in this paper [Harmke
Kamminga, Acta Cryst. A 45,
581-607 (1989)]
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