The Structure of Crystalline Solids

An introduction to crystalline solids and the simple cubic, body-centered cubic, face-centered cubic, and hexagonal close packed configurations.

Special acknowledgments to XKCD creator Randall Munroe, as a primary inspiration through his illustrative, engaging teaching style and because I borrowed elements of his style in this video.

I am in no way affiliated with the company Nintendo and have no ownership of the likeness of Pokémon. Use of the Pokémon likeness in this video is strictly for educational purposes only and is in no way intended to sell merchandise.

Further acknowledgement to Professor Krista Carlson from the Metallurgical Engineering Department at the University of Utah for her mentorship role in creating this video.

*The color-coded periodic table of elements at room temperature and 1 atmosphere is intended to give a rough visual understanding. I could not locate a peer-reviewed source broad enough to be useful, so I colored this table based on the comparison of two sources that complied data. These agreed on the majority of elements. Some disagreements could be understood (such as one source counting elements with double-HCP structure as HCP and labeling certain elements as having a single structure at room temperature) but table is not an authoritative source.

Works Cited
Image Citations.
Epp, J. Diagram of incident X-rays in XRD. ScienceDirect. Foundation Institute of Materials Science. 1 April 2016. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science.... Accessed 28 September 2020.

Descouens, Didier. “Cuarzo, Minas Gerais (Grasil)”. Wikipedia Commons. CC BY-SA. 23 January 2010. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Qu.... Accessed 28 September 2020.

Bon Chef S604 Victoria 9 ¼” 18/10 Stainless Steel Tablespoon. Webstaurant Store. https://www.webstaurantstore.com/bon-.... Accessed 28 September 2020.

Big red warning label. Morgan McKinley. 23 August 2018. https://www.morganmckinley.com/au/art.... Accessed 29 September 2020.

KampomCrafts LLC. & TheMarket76. “Ball in Jail or Cube jail, 3D Puzzle, Wooden Game, Brain Teaser, Travel size WoodenGamesToysandmade”. Pinterest. https://www.pinterest.com/pin/5378987.... Accessed 29 September 2020. “

This dice is all fives”. Reddit. u/skeletonhat. 04 November 2018.   / this_dice_is_all_5s  . Accessed 29 September 2020.

Girls without front teeth in Santa hats. Johnson Family Dental, PLLC. https://www.johnsondentalpaducah.com/.... Accessed 29 September 2020.

Bourassa, Chris. “Affliction”. Pinterest, Brent Buck, Red Hook Studios, 19 January 2016, https://www.pinterest.com/pin/7098799.... Accessed 29 September 2020.

Sun, Pei et. all. “ Fig. 15. Synchrotron X-ray spectra of dehydrogenation of Ti–6Al–4V–H in flowing argon. The eutectoid transformation β ↔ α + δ was observed during heating near 200 °C”. ScienceDirect, 5 July 2014. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science.... Accessed 29 September 2020.

“Examples for Tubes and Rods by single-step technology”. Qsil. https://www.qsil.com/en/technologies/.... Accessed 29 September 2020.

BCC Crystal Lattice. Primary Metallic Crystalline Structures (BCC, FCC, HCP), NDT Resource Center. https://www.nde-ed.org/EducationResou.... Accessed 29 September 2020.

Furian, Peter Hermes. “Periodic table of elements, black and white.” Fineartamerica. 6 March 2020. https://fineartamerica.com/featured/p.... Accessed 29 September 2020.

Websites

Website Admin. “Difference Between Glass and Quartz • QSI Quartz.” QSI Quartz, 14 June 2018, www.qsiquartz.com/difference-between-glass-and-quartz/. Accessed 28 Sep. 2020.

MacVarish, Natalie K. The Difference Between Amorphous & Semi-Crystalline Polymers, 23 Aug. 2017, blog.impactplastics-ct.com/blog/the-difference-between-amorphous-semi-crystalline-polymers. Accessed 29 Sep. 2020.

“Polyethylene (PE).” Polyethylene (PE) Plastic: Properties, Uses & Application, omnexus.specialchem.com/selection-guide/polyethylene-plastic. Accessed 29 Sep. 2020.

“Crystal Structure of the Elements.” Crystal Structure for All the Elements in the Periodic Table, periodictable.com/Properties/A/CrystalStructure.html.

“Periodic Table (Crystal Structure).” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 25 July 2020, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodic_table_(crystal_structure).

Textbooks

David G. Rethwisch. Materials Science and Engineering. Wiley, 2020. Accessed 29 Sep.

2020 Porter, David A., et al. Phase Transformations in Metals and Alloys. 3rd ed., CRC Press, 2018.