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n. - The branch of science that studies the formation and structure of bodies by the solidification under favorable conditions of a chemical element and having a regularly repeating internal arrangement of its atoms.

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  • X-ray crystallography is the specialty of chemistry that I have my degree in.
  • In the course of her career, she developed new methods that have become standard in crystallography today.
  • X-ray crystallography is based on the diffraction of X rays in protein crystals, and has since contributed to a further series of Nobel Prizes.
  • She attended the special course in crystallography and decided, following strong advice from F.M. Brewer, who was then her tutor, to do research in X-ray...
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