Re: "thermal" parameters

1999-01-21 Thread Peter Y. Zavalij
>Since Matthew Henrichsen put the question to the Rietveld list two days ago >there have been many different suggestions of possible reasons why >"thermal" parameters are so often not reliably refined from powder X-ray >diffraction data. I suggest that when 'Bragg-Brentano' geometry >(reflection

"thermal" parameters

1999-01-21 Thread R. A. Young
Since Matthew Henrichsen put the question to the Rietveld list two days ago there have been many different suggestions of possible reasons why "thermal" parameters are so often not reliably refined from powder X-ray diffraction data. I suggest that when 'Bragg-Brentano' geometry (reflection) is us

Re: Thermal Parameters, preferred orientation & systematic errors

1999-01-21 Thread L. Cranswick
> Matthew Henrichsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote 20 Jan 1999: > >Why does x-ray powder diffraction fail? Why do the others work? > > If you read Rod Hill's intercomparison (J. Appl. Cryst. (1992) 25, 589-610) > you will see that it is not only thermal parameters that are better determined > by s