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Bravais lattice

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Also known as crystal lattice

an infinite array of discrete points in three dimensional space generated by a set of discrete translation operations

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Auguste Bravais
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Bravais lattices
discoverer or inventor
Auguste Bravais
time of discovery or invention
1848-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview

The seven lattice systems and their Bravais lattices in three dimensions

In geometry and crystallography, a Bravais lattice, named after Auguste Bravais (1850), is an infinite array of discrete points generated by a set of discrete translation operations described in three dimensional space by

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