Diffraction patterns single crystal, statistical

The possibility of obtaining single crystal diffraction patterns from regions of very small diameter can obviously be an important addition to the means for investigating the structures of catalytic materials. The difficulty arises that data on individual small particles is usually, at best, merely suggestive and at worst, completely meaningless. What is normally required is statistical data on the relative frequencies of occurrence of the various structural features. For adequate statistics, it would be necessary to record and analyse very large numbers of diffraction patterns. 

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