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Electron diffraction studies of x-irradiated sodium chloride crystals have shown that after sufficient irradiation the surfaces of these crystals break up into small crystallites which exhibit preferred orientations. The time required to produce surface damage is much greater for water-polished crystals than for untreated ones.
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H.R. Leider (1956) studied this question.
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