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The 020 reflection is extinguished by the diamond basis, even though it satisfies the face-centered lattice parity rule. Write the diamond structure as an FCC lattice with identical atoms at basis positions and .
The structure factor separates into lattice and basis terms:
At , all indices are even, so the first bracket is . The second bracket is . The two identical sublattices scatter with opposite phases and cancel:
For all-even reflections of diamond, the additional allowed condition is divisible by four. This is a systematic absence, not an absence of the corresponding family of geometrical planes.

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