Hi Rajesh,

I also wondered about that.
Not having been able to find a good explanation in the literature
I thought of it as reducing factor of the *B*ragg peaks. Mhhhh???

Then I stopped thinking about it (I now try to call them ADPs)


Roberto

On 24 Jan 2007, at 12:42, Rajesh Kumar Singh wrote:

May be too trivial, I was just wondering
what "B" stands for in the term "B-factor".

Thanks

Rajesh

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