Hi Nicolae, Nice to hear from you! I couldn't help noting that in reality your emergence in the Rietveld list is similarly rare as the narrow size distribution :-). Instrumental problems are far more regular.
Best wishes, Leonid ******************************************************* Leonid A. Solovyov Institute of Chemistry and Chemical Technology K. Marx av., 42 660049, Krasnoyarsk Russia Phone: +7 3912 495663 Fax: +7 3912 238658 www.icct.ru/eng/content/persons/Sol_LA ******************************************************* --- On Tue, 10/21/08, Nicolae Popa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Nicolae Popa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: question on size-strain analysis > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], rietveld_l@ill.fr > Date: Tuesday, October 21, 2008, 11:39 AM > Hi, > > Besides strain and instrument also size broadening can be > close to a > Gaussian if the crystallite size distribution is very > narrow. For zero > dispersion of size distribution the size peak profile is > about 75% Gaussian > and 25% Lorentzian (on tails). For details see JAC (2002) > 35, 338-346 (self > citation) and other ref. cited there (Langford, Louer, > Scardi (2000)) > > Best, > > Nicolae Popa >