International
Tables for
Crystallography
Volume G
Definition and exchange of crystallographic data
Edited by S. R. Hall and B. McMahon

© International Union of Crystallography 2006
International Tables for Crystallography (2006). Vol. G. ch. 2.5, pp. 53-60
https://doi.org/10.1107/97809553602060000731

Chapter 2.5. Specification of the core CIF dictionary definition language (DDL1)

S. R. Halla* and A. P. F. Cookb

aSchool of Biomedical and Chemical Sciences, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Perth, WA 6009, Australia, and bBCI Ltd, 46 Uppergate Road, Stannington, Sheffield S6 6BX, England
Correspondence e-mail:  syd@crystal.uwa.edu.au

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