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What is a crystal lattice?

What is a crystal lattice? Here are some definitions.

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  1. (crystallography) A regular three-dimensional geometric arrangement of atoms, molecules or ions in a crystal
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For example, certain spots in a crystal lattice may remain vacant, or a lattice may have an unequal number of anion and cation sites.
These peculiar spectroscopic features can be attributed to the arrangement of the proteins inside the crystal lattice of the photoreccptor.
The next step was therefore to check that only one crystal phase was present and to determine the crystal lattice.
Crystallographers describe the repeating unit of a crystal lattice, the unit cell, by the length of its edges and angles between them.
This zero intensity point is equivalent to a dislocation on a crystal lattice.
Trapped dislocations in the crystal lattice were observed even when the average grain size was as small as 10 nanometers.

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