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Functional Materials: Understanding the Chemistry and Physics of Solids
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In this lecture we look at the X-ray powder diffraction pattern of a cubic material and see how to calculate the 2-theta values of the diffraction peaks. We see that the positions of each and every diffraction peak is determined by the length of the unit cell edge and the X-ray wavelength. We finish by manually indexing the diffraction pattern of MgO.

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