Crystallography before the Discovery of X-Ray Diffraction

Abstract This paper presents a brief description of the prevailing ideas and hypothesis about the nature of matter from antiquity to the end of XIX century. It shows how gradually, since the Hauy proposal of the existence of the unit cell, the crystal lattice and symmetry and subsequent derivation o...

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Main Author: Yvonne Primerano Mascarenhas
Format: Article
Language:Portuguese
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Física 2020-03-01
Series:Revista Brasileira de Ensino de Física
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1806-11172020000100704&tlng=en