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Hi Steve,

You can screen your crystals for the presence of twinning with a partial 
data set.  I had a R3 crystal that experienced merohedral twinning and was 
able to identify single crystals from as little as 10 deg. of data.  After 
scaling the data, I ran the intensities through Truncate and looked at the 
recommended statistics, 2nd moment and cummulative intensity distribution.  
This clearly identified single crystals.

The good news for you is that 30% twin fraction is still very usable data.  
I solved my structure from a crystal with 45% twin fraction by MR.

Good luck,

Chris

On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Soisson, Stephen Michael wrote:

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>>>Hi everyone,
>>>
>>>I hit the jackpot and got some beautiful crystals that are also beautifully
>>>twinned.  If there is any good news, it is that the twin fraction is about
>>>0.3 for the first crystal that I collected data from.  I know that some
>>>people have collected data sets from multiple crystals until they find one
>>>with a lower twin fraction, and I was wondering if you can do this with
>>>partial data sets or if you need a full set?  I suppose I could test this
>>>out with some of my existing data; however, I thought I would pose the
>>>question to see if anyone had direct experience with this that could offer
>>>any good suggestions for how to deal with this.
>>>
>>>Many thanks in advance for your comments.
>>>
>>>Cheers,
>>>
>>>Steve
>>>
>>>
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