crystallographic
adjective
crys·tal·lo·graph·ic
ˌkri-stə-lə-ˈgra-fik 
: of or relating to crystals or crystallography
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And that’s because of what’s known as the crystallographic restriction, which says that periodic tilings and structures can have rotational symmetries that are either twofold, threefold, fourfold or sixfold — and that’s it.
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Quanta Magazine, 3 July 2024
Considered for a long time impossible by classic crystallographic rules, quasicrystals, first discovered in the 1980s, have a distinct chemical formula like other minerals, but the atomic pattern is not periodic.
—David Bressan, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
The Dark Lady of DNA, which probably did more than anything to bring recognition to Franklin -- both for the important role her x-ray crystallographic work played in the discovery of the double helix and for the condescending way she was treated by Watson and other colleagues.
—George Johnson, Discover Magazine, 19 Apr. 2013
The upstart British team had a hidden advantage: crystallographic X-rays of DNA taken by colleague Rosalind Franklin.
—Linda Marsa, Discover Magazine, 29 July 2014
There are six crystallographic polymorphs of cocoa butter molecules, that is, there are six ways the molecules can organize themselves.
—Elsbeth Sites, Discover Magazine, 6 Oct. 2015
But James Watson and Francis Crick’s 1953 discovery (using crystallographic evidence from Rosalind Franklin) of the double-helix structure of DNA, so elegantly suited for replication, changed the consensus.
—Quanta Magazine, 27 Mar. 2020
Figure 4, for example, looks at first like a counterexample to the crystallographic restriction, with five-fold rotational symmetry around point A, and wallpaper pattern shifts in the directions of AB and AC.
—Quanta Magazine, 5 Mar. 2013
The image, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, was made from hundreds of crystallographic x-rays, each providing a multi-layered picture of the capsid’s structure.
—Brandon Keim, WIRED, 17 Feb. 2009
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Quanta Magazine, 3 July 2024
Considered for a long time impossible by classic crystallographic rules, quasicrystals, first discovered in the 1980s, have a distinct chemical formula like other minerals, but the atomic pattern is not periodic.
—David Bressan, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
The Dark Lady of DNA, which probably did more than anything to bring recognition to Franklin -- both for the important role her x-ray crystallographic work played in the discovery of the double helix and for the condescending way she was treated by Watson and other colleagues.
—George Johnson, Discover Magazine, 19 Apr. 2013
The upstart British team had a hidden advantage: crystallographic X-rays of DNA taken by colleague Rosalind Franklin.
—Linda Marsa, Discover Magazine, 29 July 2014
There are six crystallographic polymorphs of cocoa butter molecules, that is, there are six ways the molecules can organize themselves.
—Elsbeth Sites, Discover Magazine, 6 Oct. 2015
But James Watson and Francis Crick’s 1953 discovery (using crystallographic evidence from Rosalind Franklin) of the double-helix structure of DNA, so elegantly suited for replication, changed the consensus.
—Quanta Magazine, 27 Mar. 2020
Figure 4, for example, looks at first like a counterexample to the crystallographic restriction, with five-fold rotational symmetry around point A, and wallpaper pattern shifts in the directions of AB and AC.
—Quanta Magazine, 5 Mar. 2013
The image, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, was made from hundreds of crystallographic x-rays, each providing a multi-layered picture of the capsid’s structure.
—Brandon Keim, WIRED, 17 Feb. 2009
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