crystallography

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Crystallography is the science that examines the arrangement of atoms in solids.

2014
2014 is the International Year of Crystallography [] [|A/RES/66/284] (doc)

Wikipedia
[|Crystallography]

Elsewhere on the Web
[|2014: International year of Crystallography - birkbecklibraryscience]

Recommended Listening
[|Crystallography an 'Australian science'] - You may not have heard of it, but without crystallography HIV drugs would not have been developed, you would not have a mobile phone and scientists would never have mapped the structure of DNA.

[|X-ray crystallography reveals structure of small but complex molecules] - It can take years to grow the crystal despite recent technological advances.