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On the subject of calibration with crystals -In the good old days (not really all that long ago) I used to do calibrations using sucrose crystals. The advantage of the latter is that you can always find some laying around (e.g. in sugar packets near the coffee machine).
Lattice parameters for sucrose can be readily obtained from e.g. the CSD.Artem
