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Crystal Packing

Angelo Gavezzotti^a and Howard Flack^b

^aDipartimento di Chimica Strutturale e Stereochimica Inorganica, Università di Milano, Milan, Italy, and ^bLaboratoire de Cristallographie, Université de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Introduction
• Thermodynamics and kinetics
• Forces
• Crystal symmetry
• Symmetry operations
• Crystal-structure descriptors
• Chirality
• Polymorphism
• Experiments
• Concluding remarks, and a suggestion
• References
• Suggestions for further reading

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