Alan Hewat wrote :
>I agree that the PDF is too expensive (even tho' ICDD point out that it
>is only 6 cents for each of the 115,000 patterns :-) and for that reason
>our lab. can't afford it either - but that's our choice too.
Not a lot of compounds are synthesized at ILL, which explains that
you have not a lot to identify by search-match procedures. People come
to ILL with already known materials (I hope :-).
I remember having heard Bob Snyder at the last Denver X-ray
Conference saying that his opinion was that the ICDD cost could
and should be drastically lowered. This was during the ICDD members
discussion. Will this intention be realized ? Wait and see.
Armel Le Bail - Universite du Maine, Laboratoire des Fluorures,
CNRS ESA 6010, Av. O. Messiaen, 72085 Le Mans Cedex 9, France
http://www.cristal.org/
