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point defect line defect surface defect Schottky defect impurity defect Frenkel defect dislocation line screw dislocation edge dislocation colour centre pleochroism double refraction symmetry polymorphism Brewster’s law reststrahlen Miller indices X-ray diffraction Faraday effect Steno’s law

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