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Many important properties of solids depend on their crystal structures. Fortunately, relatively few of these need concern us: about three-quarters of the elements, for instance, crystallize in one or more of three simple structures, namely face-centred cubic (fcc, or cubic close-packed), body-centred cubic (bcc) or hexagonal close-packed (hcp). Two of these were suggested by W. Barlow in a remarkable paper of 1883, 30 years before W. L. Bragg published the first crystal structure to be determined by X-rays.
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J. C. Anderson, K. D. Leaver, J. M. Alexander and R. D. Rawlings, Materials Science, 2nd edn, Nelson (1974).
J. E. Gordon, The New Science of Strong Materials, 2nd edn, Penguin (1976).
H. D. Megaw, Crystal Structures: A Working Approach, Saunders (1973).
F. R. N. Nabarro, The Theory of Crystal Dislocations, Oxford (1967).
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Warnes, L.A.A. (1990). The Structure of Solids. In: Warnes, L.A.A. (eds) Electronic Materials. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6893-3_1
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