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"Contains all the mineral data cards in the 1980 Mineral powder diffraction file, which were not published in Selected powder diffraction data for minerals, 1974." ...

Crystallography is the science of analyzing the pattern produced by shining an X-ray beam through a material sample. A powder sample produces a different pattern than solid crystal. One longstanding ...