Diffraction from a specimen containing many crystallite orientations. Equivalent reciprocal-lattice spacings produce powder rings or corresponding peaks in an angular scan. Powder diffraction multiplicity counts the equivalent directed normals contributing to a reflection family.
The number of symmetry-equivalent directed reciprocal-lattice normals belonging to a powder-reflection family. For a cubic crystal, has multiplicity eight, corresponding to four unoriented plane orientations; hexagonal has multiplicity two. Multiplicity contributes to integrated powder intensity alongside the structure factor, angular factors and sample-dependent corrections.
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