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Definition of Crystallography

1. Noun. The branch of science that studies the formation and structure of crystals.

Definition of Crystallography

1. n. The doctrine or science of crystallization, teaching the system of forms among crystals, their structure, and their methods of formation.

Definition of Crystallography

1. Noun. The experimental science of determining the arrangement of atoms in solids. ¹

2. Noun. The study of crystals. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Crystallography

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Medical Definition of Crystallography

1. The branch of science that deals with the geometric description of crystals and their internal arrangement. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Crystallography

Literary usage of Crystallography

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Mineralogy: An Introduction to the Study of Minerals and Crystals by Edward Henry Kraus, Walter Fred Hunt (1920)
"Geometrical crystallography. 2. Physical crystallography. 3. Chemical crystallography. Geometrical crystallography, as the term implies, describes the ..."

2. The Journal of Geology by University of Chicago Department of Geology and Paleontology (1906)
"The treatment assumes a knowledge of the laws of crystallography as set forth in such works as Groth's Physikalische Krystal- ..."

3. Dana's Manual of Mineralogy for the Student of Elementary Mineralogy, the by James Dwight Dana, William Ebenezer Ford (1912)
"I. crystallography. I. INTRODUCTION. THE great majority of our minerals, when the conditions of formation are favorable, occur in definite and ..."

4. A Treatise on Chemistry by Henry Enfield Roscoe, Carl Schorlemmer, John Cannell Cain (1907)
"CHEMICAL crystallography. 112 The study of the correlation of chemical composition and crystalline structure is a subject of great interest, which is termed ..."

5. A History of European Thought in the Nineteenth Century by John Theodore Merz (1896)
"crystallography. brought about the general recognition of Lavoisier's ... They are the science of crystallography and the great theory of probabilities. ..."

6. History of the Inductive Sciences, from the Earliest to the Present Time by William Whewell (1894)
"crystallography. Elemente der Krystallographie ... this work has been followed in A System of crystallography, with its Applications to Mineralogy. ..."

7. Manual of Mineralogy: Including Observations on Mines, Rocks, Reduction of by James Dwight Dana (1869)
"The subject is treated of under its usual name, crystallography CHAPTER II. crystallography: OR THE STRUCTURE OF ..."

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