The Burgers vector is a fundamental concept in materials science and crystallography, particularly in the study of dislocations within crystal structures. It is a vector that quantifies the magnitude and direction of the lattice distortion resulting from the presence of a dislocation.
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The lattice translation represented by closure failure of a circuit around a dislocation, with a consistent circuit convention. It is a vector, so dislocation reactions conserve its direction as well as its magnitude.