Talk:Crystal structure

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I suggest adding "lattice constant" or "grating constant". I just do not know the exact name for it in english (whether the name in materials or optics) and I am not sure about adding it with definition in the article or link it to an own one. what do yo think?

--morgenrot42 23:12, 22 Aug 2004 (UTC)

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the idea was to delete that page, then to rename the" mineral structure" -> "crystal structure".

But suit yourself. If you do it, it will take one second
if I do, it will take maybe two weeks. So do as you wish.

I'll put it on the vote for deletion as usual

ant

History moved. I still think that unit cell should be merged here. --mav

There is no "what the hell". If the history (at least of the richest article) has to be preserved, and the two pages exist at the same time, I cannot do a redirect to an already existing page. Right ? And I cannot delete a page either. So, what I have been doing for a year now, is either to drop the subject as it is very relaxing to do so, or to head for the votes for deletion page to have one of the pages deleted. Wait until someone is kind enough to do it, then make the move. That is precisely what any non-sysop user has to do each time he wants to do something similar :-)

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Replaced mav's diagrams with smoother ones, and added the missing ones. I'm no crystallographer, so let me know if I did something wrong with them -- DrBob 02:25, 20 May 2004 (UTC)

I'm not a crystallographer either, but they look great to me! The only nitpick I have is that the difference between triclinic and rhombohedral is that all the sides are the same in rhombohedral. It's reasonably clear in the diagram, but could you add a little a next to each side of mav's rhombohedral diagram? Tantalate 19:48, 20 May 2004 (UTC)

OK, I've uploaded a tweaked version -- DrBob 20:02, 20 May 2004 (UTC)

Thanks, looks awesome! Tantalate 20:37, 20 May 2004 (UTC)

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It would be nice to have the pictures at Wikipedia-Commons. --80.185.28.63 11:13, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Lattice vectors

There doesn't appear to be anywhere on Wikipedia where primitive lattice vectors for various lattices are explicitly stated. E.g for FCC,BCC etc. I think it would be useful for any student looking for such information. I added the FCC vectors to the diamond page but they were removed! I could add a list in a new section on this page if thought appropriate.

Thanks Lukehounsome

There is something like this on Cubic (crystal system), you could add info there and on similar pages.--Patrick 12:43, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Crystal illustrations

Has anyone taken on the task of making them SVG images? This would be nescessary in any case if the periodic table of Wikipedia:WikiProject_Elements would be converted to SVG. --Dschwen 22:18, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

I've made a .svg of the hexagonal lattice. Image was based on Cubic structures by User:Baszoetekouw - Danieljamesscott 13:23, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Making some changes

I'm making some changes to this article. We already have articles for crystal system, Bravais lattice, crystallographic point group and space group. Some of these articles are ok, but we need to tie all of these concepts together, and I believe this article is the right place to do that. So I'm trying to structure this article so that it will give a good overview of the different concepts, while still being short and concise. I'd be happy to have som help in this though. O. Prytz 22:05, 7 June 2006 (UTC)