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Confusion over the description of the quartz structure yet again
Author(s) -
Glazer A. M.
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of applied crystallography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.429
H-Index - 162
ISSN - 1600-5767
DOI - 10.1107/s160057671800434x
Subject(s) - quartz , confusion , crystallography , geology , chemistry , paleontology , psychology , psychoanalysis
In a recent paper [ Huang, Gog, Kim, Kasman, Said, Casa, Wieczorek, Hönnicke & Assoufid (2018). J. Appl. Cryst. 51 , 140–147], a description of the structure of quartz was given that is incorrect. There is a long history of such errors in publications describing the quartz structure. This was fully and correctly discussed in 1978 [ Donnay & Le Page (1978). Acta Cryst. A 34 , 584–594], and yet these errors still persist. In the present paper the description by Huang et al. is corrected and the seminal work of Donnay and Le Page revisited.