The point made by Armel is possibly misplaced.
Whilst I agree that waiting for neutron data does impose a considerable
delay when compared against readily available laboratory X-ray facilities,
this misses the point somewhat. In the cases Jaap outlined an X-ray
diffraction experiment would be
Jaap wrote :
>Reactions?
yes ! How many time between the synthesis, the X-ray
pattern refinement and then the refinement of both neutron
and X-ray patterns ?
Suppose that you synthesize your sample today. you may have
a good X-ray pattern in less than a month, probably. Then
the neutron pattern
OK to follow up Andrew's remarks:
I use simultanous X-ray and neutron refinements almost all the time
nowadays. There are a lot of advantages when you like me work with
transition metal oxides:
1) in general the refinement is more stable.
2) the possibility the study much more complicated str
