The bundled CD-ROM, which uses CrystalMaker for instruction and demos on both Windows and Macintosh platforms, allows the user to manipulate the structures. Insight into crystal structures, including some complex silicates, is aided by the use of the CrystalMaker computer program. Early chapters provide an introduction to crystal structures and symmetry for readers with a variety of backgrounds. It is easily understood and used by those concerned with applications dependent on structure-properties relationships. Structure and Chemistry of Crystalline Solids presents a widely applicable system with simple notation giving important information about the structure and the chemical environment of ions or molecules. Most chemists, metallurgists, mineralogists, geologists and materials scientists need a simple system and notation for describing crystal structures. Crystallographers have an elegant system using definitive notation for describing crystal structures, but it does not serve as well the needs of many others working with crystalline solids.
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