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You will need the Chime plugin for viewing and rotating the crystals. If you do not have it, look for it at the MDL website. (It works with either Netscape or that other Internet browser, whose name I forget right now.)

Choose a set of crystals to look at:

Elements (Cu, Zn, C, and also C₃N₄)
Elements - for larger screens  (1024x768)

Halides (NaCl, CsCl, CaF₂, and also ZnS)
Halides - for larger screens

Oxides (TiO₂, ReO₃, PbTiO₃, YBa₂Cu₃O₇, Al₂O₃, FeCr₂O₄)
Oxides - for larger screens

Other structures that can be viewed with Chime:
...A large variety of inorganic crystal lattices, at the Naval Research Laboratory
...A big site at the University of Massachusetts with mainly biological molecules to look at, and also lots more info about Chime. (This is also an important website for RasMol, a free molecular visualization program that runs independently of Netscape/IE.)
...WOW! neat Chime illustration of atomic & ionic radii!! Also some nice molecular structures. (From Washington State University.)
...Do you have a VRML (virtual reality modeling language) player such as Cosmo? If so, check out the inorganic structures at the Institut Laue-Langevin in France.
...A database for crystal structures of minerals is being developed at the University of Arizona.
...Also, check out the Chemistry Visualization Project at the University of Illinois.

To download the files I used for these pictures, click here. They are in PDB (Protein Data Bank) format.

Go to the LSU Chemistry Homepage or the CHEM 4570 homepage
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