Chemical Crystallography and Liquid Crystals

Contents: Preface. 1. Introductory. 2. The growth of crystals. 3. External features of crystals. 4. The unit cell and primitive lattice cell. 5. Bravais lattices. 6. Calculation of number of atoms per unit cell. 7. Laws of crystallography. 8. Packing of uniform spheres. 9. Internal structure of crystals. 10. Structure of sylvine (KCI). 11. Electron microscope.

"This concise text includes various aspects of chemical crystallography and liquid crystals. Practical applications and uses of chemical crystallography have been described. This text is suitable for students of various branches of physics, chemistry, geology, bioscience, environment, etc." (jacket)