crystallographic
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- crystallographically adverb
Etymology
Origin of crystallographic
First recorded in 1790–1800; crystallo- + -graphic
Example Sentences
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Progress has also been slowed by the difficulty of producing high-quality thin films with a consistent crystallographic orientation.
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
Accompanying the article was another, by Gosling and Franklin, providing strong crystallographic evidence for the double-helical structure.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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