Hi "The Rotation Method in Crystallography" ed Arndt & Wonacott uses both "crystal oscillation" and "crystal rotation".
However, most of the time these days we don't oscillate the crystal when we're working at synchrotrons, but "occasionally" do when working in the lab. On 26 Feb 2015, at 09:34, Dipankar Manna wrote: > Dear Crystallographers, > > May be this is a very stupid question- which terminology should we use for > crystal data collection- "Crystal Rotation" or "Crystal Oscillation" or both? > > I apologise if this is already discussed! > > Best, > > Dipankar > > -- > Dipankar Manna > Research Scholar > Department of Chemistry > University of Oslo > Oslo, Norway Harry -- Dr Harry Powell, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QH Chairman of International Union of Crystallography Commission on Crystallographic Computing Chairman of European Crystallographic Association SIG9 (Crystallographic Computing)
