Talk:X-ray crystallography
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I removed the notice about merging this article with crystallography. That article clearly discusses other techniques beside x-ray. It is not clear to me that they need to be merged. Rmhermen 21:01, Nov 14, 2003 (UTC)
Yes, crystallography addresses additional techniques, but those others are also based on diffraction from crystals and on the construction an image by fourier transformation, and so a lot of the explaining that needs doing for one of them needs doing for all of them. I think we should have one good explanation of the commonalities in one article and links to specific articles just for the fine points, such as that a lot of X-ray stuff is going on at synchrotrons and figures in big international proteomics initiatives. 168... 21:51, 14 Nov 2003 (UTC)
- Not the same as merging though. I don't know that there is anything wrong with having a detailed explanation of all techniques at crystallography, and a brief explanation and fine points at each kind. Some general description needs to stay here for people who arrive directly by links to x-ray crystallography. It just isn't polite to click on a link and be immediately told to click another to get the basics and then come back. Rmhermen 14:07, Nov 15, 2003 (UTC)
