Usage examples (29)

• These studies do not give factual data on atomic coordinates, but generally give facts about interatomic distances.
• Bragg (father and son) to measure interatomic distances and to analyse the geometrical arrangement of atoms in simple crystals.
• The change is exactly the opposite of that made by the interatomic, intermolecular force-fields between the particles of transparent substances.
• Solving the 3D geometry is then an optimization problem where the task is to find the 3D geometry that best reproduces the factual interatomic distances.