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Stacie:
> I'm a first year grad. student and I was wondering
> if anyone could recommend a text that discusses 
> X-ray diffraction in very simple terminology.  I'm
> looking for something that is more conceptually than
> mathematically based.

You might want to look up the following:

1.  Crystal Structure Analysis: A Primer [1985] by Jenny Glusker and Ken
Trueblood (Second Edition, Oxford U. Press).
2.  Principles of Protein X-ray Crystallography [1994] by Jan Drenth
(Springer Verlag).

For a practical perspective see:

Duncan McRee's "Practical Protein Crystallography" [1993] (Academic
Press).

Cheers
-raman
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