crystallographic
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of crystallographic
First recorded in 1790–1800; crystallo- + -graphic
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The research team overcame these obstacles by successfully creating RuO2 thin films with a single crystallographic orientation on sapphire substrates.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 26, 2025
Nevertheless, this method has proved useful for calculating ionic radii from experimental measurements such as X-ray crystallographic determinations.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
In 1982, the Nobel committee awarded the chemistry prize to Dr. Klug “for his development of crystallographic electron microscopy and his structural elucidation of biologically important nucleic acid-protein complexes.”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 24, 2018
The significance of the lone pair–π interaction in crystal engineering has been noted by Reedijk and co-workers, based on a thorough analysis of the crystallographic database91.
From Nature ● Mar. 28, 2017
There was in addition the X-ray crystallographic result that each pure base so far examined formed as many irregular hydrogen bonds as stereochemically possible.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
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