CRYSTAL STRUCTURE TVPES

Introduction

An enormous amount of information has been collected in recent years on the structure of crystals. Much of it is not in the domain of mineralogy, but a large part is becoming of ever increasing importance to this science. It is with this in mind that an attempt will be made to present a short review of some of the relations of structure types to one another. V. M. Goldschmidt and his co-workers together with many others (see bibliography) have attempted to classify the known structures into definite types, and thus explain such properties as isomorphism, polymorphism, morphotropism, hardness, and optical properties. 


Reference: http://www.minsocam.org/ammin/AM14/AM14_173.pdf