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An element or compound is '''polytypic''' if it occurs in several structural modifications, each of which can be regarded as built up by stacking layers of (nearly) identical structure and composition, and if the modifications differ only in their stacking sequence. Polytypism is a special case of polymorphism: the two-dimensional translations within the layers are essentially preserved.
 
An element or compound is '''polytypic''' if it occurs in several structural modifications, each of which can be regarded as built up by stacking layers of (nearly) identical structure and composition, and if the modifications differ only in their stacking sequence. Polytypism is a special case of polymorphism: the two-dimensional translations within the layers are essentially preserved.
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Acta Cryst. (1984). A40, 399-404; "Nomenclature of Polytype Structures"
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Report of the International Union of Crystallography Ad-Hoc Committee on the Nomenclature of Disordered, Modulated and Polytype Structures
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==See also==
 
==See also==

Revision as of 04:38, 28 October 2006

== Definition

An element or compound is polytypic if it occurs in several structural modifications, each of which can be regarded as built up by stacking layers of (nearly) identical structure and composition, and if the modifications differ only in their stacking sequence. Polytypism is a special case of polymorphism: the two-dimensional translations within the layers are essentially preserved.

Acta Cryst. (1984). A40, 399-404; "Nomenclature of Polytype Structures" Report of the International Union of Crystallography Ad-Hoc Committee on the Nomenclature of Disordered, Modulated and Polytype Structures


See also

Chapter 9.2 of International Tables of Crystallography, Volume C