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A Students' Goniometer1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

G. F. Herbert Smith*
Affiliation:
Mineral Department of the British Museum

Extract

This form of goniometer was designed in order to provide for the use of students of elementary crystallography, at as moderate a cost as possible, an efficient instrument for the measurement of the interracial angles of crystals. It is of the customary type, in which the direction of reference is given by the reflection of a distant object in a small plane mirror without optical aid, and the axis of the grHduated circle is horizontal. The mirror measures about 45 by 25 ram. and its frame is rigidly attached to the ball of a ball and socket joint, so that it is adjustable in any direction; the socket is split, and a screw linking the halves enables it to grip the ball firmly.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1919

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Footnotes

1

Communicated by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.

References

1 Communicated by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.