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Notations Used for Representing Close-Packed Structures

The special notations employed to distinguish the different close-packed structures of a material have been described in detail by Verma and Krishna². In this section a brief description of only those notations which are more commonly used is given.

(a) Ramsdell`s notation⁸
(b) The classical ABC notation
(c) Zhdanov notation
(d) The h-c notation

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