Single crystal material is complicated, time consuming, and requires a high degree of homogeneity to the selected crystal. So, while ideal (and necessary) for the identification of new mineral species, is not user friendly for those wishing to identify th

Single-crystal X-ray Diffraction is a non-destructive analytical technique which provides detailed information about the internal lattice of crystalline substances, including unit cell dimensions, bond-lengths, bond-angles, and details of site-ordering.

Single Crystal XRD: Data Acquisition and Structure Solving Jianfeng (Peter) Zhu SSSC, University of Saskatchewan June 2017