Lead Nitrate
Rory M Wilson ( "Rory )
Tue, 14 Oct 1997 10:38:47 GMT0BST
     Hi 
        I have been using lead nitrate as a calibrant in X-ray 
powder diffraction experiments. I'm wondering if anyone has 
any highly accurate modern values for its lattice parameter.
The value quoted in the older version of Int.Tables is
a=7.8404kX =7.8562A. Wycoff  favours a=7.853A which 
I think comes from Acta Cryst (1955) vol8, p840. The last
value I have comes from Acta Cryst (1957), vol10, p103
which despite being a neutron diffraction experiment
just gives 'a=7.84' which actually comes from an earlier paper.
      Many thanks in advance
                                    Rory Wilson