Abstract
Although the title seems innocuous, it is intended to be deliberately provocative. When chemists think of powder diffraction, it is generally in the traditional sense of a tool for phase identification, and perhaps the determination of lattice parameters, semiquantitative phase analysis, or average crystallite size. Recent advances in software (particularly the Rietveld method) and the availability of synchrotron radiation have facilitated the extraction of accurate and precise structural information from powder diffraction data, information comparable to that obtained from a typical single crystal experiment. It is now possible to do “powder crystallography”, and not merely the traditional tasks of powder diffraction.
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