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A large number of inorganic compounds are found in nature, some of them very complex from the point of view of chemical composition and structure. They have been studied by mineralogists, the structures have been established, some physical properties measured, mainly to provide clues for analytical identification, and some chemical properties used, especially for mining and refining purposes. Meanwhile, the inorganic chemists have also synthesized scores of new compounds to compete with nature, and also to get thermodynamic insight, for example from phase diagrams, and, with the development of crystallography and X-ray machines, to build an endless picture show of structure types and arrangements of atoms and bonds in space. This work is more or less automatic now and chemists have focused their attention on the physical properties of their materials, whether they are electrical, optical, or mechanical. They are turning physicists onto that game, and more and more of them undertake measurements of physical properties, trying to optimize them with systematic strategies, playing with substitutions, isomorphism, epitaxy, surface treatments etc. ... The synthesis techniques are nowadays oriented towards the production of materials with definite physical properties, and structures are just an essential information in the process, not the object.
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Caro, P. (1988). Molecular-Orbital Approach to Crystal-Field Theory for Transition Elements in Solids. In: Maruani, J. (eds) Molecules in Physics, Chemistry, and Biology. Topics in Molecular Organization and Engineering, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2851-0_19
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