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The mean-square Friedel intensity difference in P1 with a centrosymmetric substructure

H D Flack1, U Shmueli

  • 1Laboratoire de Cristallographie, University of Geneva, Switzerland. howard.flack@cryst.unige.ch

Acta Crystallographica. Section A, Foundations of Crystallography
|April 17, 2007
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