Buerger, Martin

The following books by the late Martin Buerger can be highly recommended for clear, detailed presentation of fundamentals. Sadly, some are out of print, but most libraries have them ... 

Polymorphs are converted into one another by phase transformations. Martin Buerger " wrote The polymorphs of a substance are, in a sense, nodes, and the phase transformations comprise the network which connects them. There is an energy barrier to any polymorphic transition since an activation energy is necessary. External physical effects such as increasing the temperature may cause a change to a different... 

G.17 Leonid V. Azaroff and Martin J. Buerger. The Powder Method in X-Ray Crystallography (New York McGraw-Hill, 1958). The making and interpretation of Debye-Scherrer photographs, including precise parameter measurements. 

G.35 Martin J. Buerger. Contemporary Crystallography (New York McGraw-Hill,... 

At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dr. Martin Buerger has used X-rays to record the position of single atoms in a metallic crystal of pyrite, or fool s gold. Pyrite is iron disulfide, a compound.of iron and sulfur. Each pyrite unit contains 1 iron atom and 2 sulfur atoms. 

Dr. Martin J. Buerger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 41 Dow Chemical Company — 199 (top left and right)... 

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