International
Tables for
Crystallography
Volume C
Mathematical, physical and chemical tables
Edited by E. Prince

© International Union of Crystallography 2006
International Tables for Crystallography (2006). Vol. C. ch. 3.2, pp. 156-159
https://doi.org/10.1107/97809553602060000586

Chapter 3.2. Determination of the density of solids

F. M. Richardsa and P. F. Lindleyb

aDepartment of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, 260 Whitney Ave, New Haven, CT 06520-8114, USA, and bESRF, Avenue des Martyrs, BP 220, F-38043 Grenoble CEDEX, France

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