Description
Book SynopsisThis textbook presents an extensive manual of crystallography, including geometric crystallography, crystallochemistry, and crystallophysics. Illustrated with a wealth of figures and diagrams, it offers a thorough introduction to crystals for undergraduate and graduate students interested in learning the essentials and advanced concepts of crystallography.
The book begins with basic concepts such as the geometry, morphology and symmetry of lattices, allowing readers to approach the subject from a mathematical point of view, abstracting it from its material content. In turn, the second part focuses on crystallochemistry and explains the differences between ideal and real crystals, and between static and dynamic ones. The third part of the textbook concerns crystallophysics and addresses the electrical, magnetic, mechanical, elastic and optical properties of crystals, as well as the fundamental laws and methods of X-ray diffraction.
Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION
GEOMETRIC CRYSTALLOGRAPHY
1.- INTRODUCTION TO CRYSTALLOGRAPHY
2.- PERIODICITY, CRYSTAL LATTICE, SYMBOLS AND NOTATIONS
3.- LATTICES AND SYMMETRY
4.- POINT SYMMETRY
5.- SPACE GROUPS
CRYSTALLOCHEMISTRY
6.- CRYSTALLINE STRUCTURES. PACKING. COORDINATION
7.- BASIC MODELS OF CRYSTALLINE STRUCTURES
8.- DEFECTS. DISLOCATIONS. ISOMORPHISM
9.- POLYMORPHISM. POLYMORPHIC TRANSFORMATIONS. ORDER-DISORDER TRANSFORMATIONS
CRYSTALPHYSIC
10.- RELATION BETWEEN SYMMETRY AND PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
11.- INTERACTION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES WITH CRYSTALS
12.- CRYSTALS AND LIGHT
13.- THE POLARIZATION MICROSCOPE
14.- OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF TRANSPARENT CRYSTALS AND MINERALS
15.- OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF OPAQUE CRYSTALS AND MINERALS
16.- ELECTRICAL, MAGNETIC, MECHANICAL AND ELASTIC PROPERTIES
17.- CRYSTALS, MINERALS AND X-RAYS
18.- BIBLIOGRAPHY
19.- EXERCISES
20.- QUESTIONNAIRES
21.- APPENDIX
