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International Tables for Crystallography (2006). Vol. C. ch. 8.6, pp. 710-712
https://doi.org/10.1107/97809553602060000614

Chapter 8.6. The Rietveld method

A. Albinatia and B. T. M. Willisb

a Istituto Chimica Farmaceutica, Università di Milano, Viale Abruzzi 42, Milano 20131, Italy, and bChemical Crystallography Laboratory, University of Oxford, 9 Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PD, England

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