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Seventy-six years ago, Friedrich, Knipping and von Laue (1912) demonstrated the diffraction of X-rays on a crystal of copper sulphate using white X-radiation. With a stationary crystal and white X-radiation, a large number of lattice planes diffract simultaneously as the Bragg condition is satisfied for each of these planes by at least one wavelength of the spectrum. The wider the wavelength range the more lattice planes become accessible to the Laue geometry (Amoros et al., 1975; Cruickshank et al., 1987). Moreover, with crystals of high symmetry, a full data set may be recorded on a single photograph. The Laue technique did not become a method of data collection because conventional X-ray sources do not have a satisfactory spectrum and because of the difficulties in unravelling the complicated diffraction patterns.
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Hajdu, J. et al. (1989). Laue Crystallography: Application to Virus Crystals. In: Sweet, R.M., Woodhead, A.D. (eds) Synchrotron Radiation in Structural Biology. Basic Life Sciences, vol 51. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-8041-2_30
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