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In [[Bragg's law]] describing the condition for a plane wave to be diffracted from a family of lattice planes, the angle &theta; between the wavevector of the incident plane wave, '''k<sub>o</sub>''', and the lattice planes (Fig. 1).
 
In [[Bragg's law]] describing the condition for a plane wave to be diffracted from a family of lattice planes, the angle &theta; between the wavevector of the incident plane wave, '''k<sub>o</sub>''', and the lattice planes (Fig. 1).
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In Bragg's law describing the condition for a plane wave to be diffracted from a family of lattice planes, the angle θ between the wavevector of the incident plane wave, ko, and the lattice planes (Fig. 1).