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Calibration Materials

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Unit cell parameters for some standards used at ID11

Silicon, NIST 640c

a = 0.54311946 ± 0.00000092 nm at 22.5 °C

Lanthanum Hexaboride, NIST 660a

a = 0.41569162 nm ± 0.00000097 nm at 22.5 °C

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