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sphere of reflection
In crystallography, a construction for considering conditions for diffraction in terms of the reciprocal rather than the real lattice.
It is a sphere with the incident beam along a diameter. The origin of the reciprocal lattice is positioned at the point where the incident beam emerges from the sphere.
Whenever a reciprocal lattice point touches the surface of the sphere, the conditions for a diffracted (or reflected) beam are satisfied.
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sphero-, spher-, -sphere-
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