Chemical applications of thermal neutron scattering / edited by B.T.M. Willis.

• 1. Basic theory of thermal neutron scattering by condensed matter / C. G. Windsor -- 2. Experimental techniques / G. C. Stirling -- 3. Neutron inelastic scattering and molecular spectroscopy / J. W. White -- 4. Models for calculating the properties of phonons in molecular crystals / G. S. Pawley -- 5. Neutron scattering studies of the dynamics of polymer chains / G. Allen -- 6. Atomic and molecular motion in liquids by thermal neutron scattering / J. G. Prowles -- 7. Structure and atomic motion in glasses / A. J. Leadbetter -- 8. The structure of liquids by neutron scattering / D. I. Page -- 9. Hydrogen bonding, and some results of its study by neutron diffraction / J. C. Speakman -- 10. Structural studies on non-stoichiometric compounds by the Bragg scattering of thermal neutrons / A. K. Cheetham -- 11. Diffuse scattering and the study of defect solids / B. E. F. Fender -- 12. Neutron diffraction and covalency / A. J. Jacobson -- Appendix I: Neutron scattering data for elements and isotopes -- Appendix II: Properties of the δ-function -- Appendix III: Fourier transforms. 

• Since thec early 1950s, there has been intense activity in the application of neutron-beam methods to the study of the microscopic properties of condensed matter. Most of the earler work was in the area of solid-state (or liquid-state) physics, but in the past few years there has been a remarkable extension intp several branches of chemistry. This volume, which has developed from a series of lectures at given at a Harwell Summer School, summarizes the progress to date in using a thermal neutron beam as a tool in chemistry. Both inelastic and elastic scattering processes are discussed. From inelastic experiments, involving the masurement of the change in energy of neutrins on scattering, "dynamical" properties, such as molecular energy levels in solids or atomic motion in liquids, can be examined. Elastic scattering experiments, in which no energy change takes place on scattering, give information about 'structural' properties, such as the arrangement of the atoms or of atomic magnetic moments in the material. 

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Thermal neutrons  -- Scattering (LCSH)

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