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Engineering Physics
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Engineering Physics

by S. Mani Naidu
October 2009
Intermediate to advanced
503 pages
14h 28m
English
Pearson India
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2.2 Space lattice (or) crystal lattice

In a solid crystalline material, the atoms or molecules are arranged regularly and periodically in three dimensions. To explain crystal symmetries easily, it is convenient to represent an atom or a group of atoms that repeats in three dimensions in the crystal as a unit. If each such unit of atoms or atom in a crystal is replaced by a point in space, then the resultant points in space are called space lattice. Each point in space is called a lattice point and each unit of atoms or atom is called basis or pattern. A space lattice represents the geometrical pattern of crystal in which the surroundings of each lattice point is the same.

If the surroundings of each lattice point is same or if the atom or all ...

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