Sean Champ's List: College Geoinformatics

• "Barringer Crater"

• The Cambridge Structural Database - The world repository of small molecule crystal structures

  • This is a privately licensed resource. How can it said to be applicable, then, in any worldwide scope or context?
• The Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) is the principal product of the CCDC.

• CSD records bibliographic, chemical and crystallographic information for: 

   
  • organic molecules 
  • metal-organic compounds 
   whose 3D structures have been determined using 
   
  • X-ray diffraction 
  • neutron diffraction
• The CSD does not store:
• Inorganic structures, which are stored in the Inorganic Crystal Structure Database  http://www.fiz-karlsruhe.de/icsd_content.html

  • ICSD is not publicly available - it's a privately licensed resources.
• Metals and Alloys, which are stored in CRYSTMET® http://www.tothcanada.com/

  • CRYSTMET is not publicly available, either - it too is a privately licensed resource.

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