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- In crystallography, the Sayre equation, named after David Sayre who introduced it in 1952, is a mathematical relationship that allows one to calculate probable values for the phases of some diffracted beams. It is used when employing direct methods to solve a structure. Its formulation is the following: which states how the structure factor for a beam can be calculated as the sum of the products of pairs of structure factors whose indices sum to the desired values of . Since weak diffracted beams will contribute a little to the sum, this method can be a powerful way of finding the phase of related beams, if some of the initial phases are already known by other methods. In particular, for three such related beams in a centrosymmetric structure, the phases can only be 0 or and the Sayre equation reduces to the triplet relationship: where the indicates the sign of the structure factor (positive if the phase is 0 and negative if it is ) and the sign indicates that there is a certain degree of probability that the relationship is true, which becomes higher the stronger the beams are. (en)
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- In crystallography, the Sayre equation, named after David Sayre who introduced it in 1952, is a mathematical relationship that allows one to calculate probable values for the phases of some diffracted beams. It is used when employing direct methods to solve a structure. Its formulation is the following: In particular, for three such related beams in a centrosymmetric structure, the phases can only be 0 or and the Sayre equation reduces to the triplet relationship: (en)
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