Good topic, I just had a related thought: can I use the term in my NMR
course to say it's the only spectroscopy that gives atomic resolution
- meaning, here, that every NMR-active atom is distinguishable from
its neighbours thanks to its unique chemical shift. At good enough
resolution, i.e. field strength... Is it fair to use the term here or
would you object since I am not talking about spacial resolution but
something that could maybe be called 'chemical' resolution? But it is
still 'atomic', isn't it?
Cheers, Bärbel
On 11 Jan 2018, at 19:31, Keller, Jacob
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Dear Crystallographers,
Has there been a consensus as to what is meant by “atomic
resolution?” Seems like the term is taken by various practitioners
to mean different things.
A related question: at what resolution are atoms “visible” using
only the data? I have an empirical feeling that this would be around
1.5 Ang Bragg spacings, but on the other hand, one can contour up
most maps and see individual atom peaks. I would be interested to
hear a more rigorous way to think about this.
All the best,
Jacob Keller
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