lattice energy

noun

1. chem the energy required to separate the ions of a crystal to an infinite distance, usually expressed in joules per mole

Example Sentences

The likelihood of each structure being stable and accessible to experiment relates to its predicted lattice energy.

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These molecular geometries were held rigid throughout crystal structure generation and lattice energy minimization.

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Lattice energy calculations were performed with an anisotropic atom–atom potential using DMACRYS36.

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CSP was performed using a quasi-random sampling procedure, as implemented in the Global Lattice Energy Explorer software27.

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For a given molecule, the relative lattice energy of a given predicted crystal structure was evaluated as the difference between its calculated lattice energy and the lattice energy of the global minimum on the energy–density landscape of that given molecule.

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