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Crystal Geometry
The Platonic Solids
Dodecahedron Icosahedron
Octahedron Tetrahedron
http://home.teleport.com/~tpgettys/platonic.shtml
Christian Huygens,
1690
Snow flakes
Bentley captured more than 5000 snowflakes during his lifetime, not
http://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/
What I expect you to know for
thi course
this
Space
p Lattice
Si
Simple b BCC
l cube FCC
a=2r
Directions in a crystal
Directions in a crystal
y
4
Interstial spaces
6
Interstial spaces -8
8
Interstial spaces -12
12
Examples