单词 | crystallography |
释义 | crystallographyn. The branch of physical science concerned with the structure and properties of crystals and crystalline materials (cf. crystal n. 5a) and their systematic classification. Also: a treatise on this subject.X-ray crystallography: see X-ray n. and adj. Compounds 2b. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > crystallography (general) > [noun] crystallography1784 crystallology1803 crystallogy1811 crystallogenesis1851 crystallogeny1869 1784 Monthly Rev. Apr. 319 Crystallography, or Description of the Forms proper to all Bodies of the Mineral Kingdom, in their States of saline, stony, and metallic Combinations. 1816 R. Jameson Treat. External Characters Minerals (ed. 2) 197 Tri-rhomboidal; this, in the Wernerian Crystallography, is a double six-sided pyramid. 1900 A. Hill Introd. Sci. ii. 86 The lævo-rotary crystals look like the dextro-rotary when they are seen in a looking-glass. They are reversed or enantiomorphic in the language of crystallography. 1954 J. F. Kirkaldy Gen. Princ. Geol. i. 15 The study of the detailed internal structure of crystals has become so specialized that advanced Crystallography is now more a branch of Physics than of Geology. 2005 New Yorker 18 Apr. 177/2 Both of them unexpectedly chose to work in a slightly backwater discipline—crystallography—rather than in something trendy. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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