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Note on the construction of models to illustrate theories of crystal structure

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

H. L. Bowman*
Affiliation:
University of Oxford

Extract

There are probably few subjects for the study of which models are more indispensable than the theories of crystal structure ; but the provision of any considerable series of such models is costly, and they require, moreover, a large amount of space for storage. Some interchangeable models, which the author has lately had constructed to illustrate the space-lattices and the regular point-systems of Sohncke, and which may be fitted up and taken to pieces as required, have been found so convenient, both for lectures and for private study, that a short description of them may be found useful, although they differ only in details of construction from those suggested by Sohncke.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1911

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References

Page 51 note 1 Sohncke, L., ‘Entwickelung einer Theorie der Krystallstructur,’ Leipzig, 1879, p. 179 Google Scholar, and PI. V.

Page 52 note 1 R. Threlfall, ‘Laboratory Arts,’ 1898, p. 88.

Page 53 note 1 If it is desired to show the tetragonal systems, a frame may be fitted with a pair of zinc plates specially drilled with holes in the proper positions for the wires. One such pair of plates, drilled for the compound tetragonal columnar system (No. 86), is sufficient to enable any of the tetragonal point-systems to be constructed.