Crystal Structures

  Websites with lots of still images, interactive images, and movies...

• Structures of Simple Solids

Extensive lecture notes from an Inorganic course at Oxford.
Note:  Some of the images seemed to be missing when I was browsing.
 
• Crystal Lattice Structures on the Web

The Perovskite Structure

• General information, structural, and optical microscope images of perovskite
  

• Images of the Perovskite and Related Structures

• Quicktime movie of a perovskite unit cell (octahedron at center of unit cell)


...and another Quicktime movie (octahedra at corners of unit cell)

Other Mineral Structures

• The mineral structure MgSiO₃ (distorted perovskite)

This site also contains a link to a large database of other mineral structures.

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