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MATERIALS RESEARCH EXPRESS
Volume 2, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/2053-1591/2/2/025401
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human tooth enamel; neutron powder diffraction; hydroxyapatite
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Crystal structure of human tooth enamel was investigated using high-resolution neutron powder diffraction. Excellent agreement between observed and refined patterns is obtained, using the hexagonal hydroxyapatite model for the tooth enamel, where a large hydroxyl deficiency similar to 70% is found in the 4e site. Rietveld refinements method combined with the difference Fourier maps have revealed, however, that the hydroxyl ions are not only disordered along the c-axis but also within the basal plane. Additional H ions located at the 6h site and forming HPO42- anions were found.
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