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[sdpd] Publish or not publish dirty structures from powder data

Hi,

Probably you have several such samples in your drawers,
samples that are not pure (up to 1-3 impurities or more),
indexed (but is it so sure ?), and a crystal structure model
more or less established in a space group not absolutely
certain.

You are tired to try to obtain them pure, they resist
to your attempts to make suitably large single crystals,
and it is not your fault if b ~ a x 1.732 so that the
cell looks haxagonal but is much probably orthorhombic (etc,
multiple possibilities here).

Finally you think that it would be a pity to not try to publish,
even if some points of the manuscript can be criticized.
After all, this work represents some advancement, there
is a dirty structure model at least and this is better than
nothing or false indexing in the PDF.

But will you dare to submit that dirty paper ? How many
of them have you put back in the drawer ?

;-)

Armel

PS - Close to the end of my career, I am trying to
bring to the light some dirty but interesting old things...



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