Gifts for Chemists
The structures a chemist will recognise across the room. Each print is rendered from real crystallographic data - the actual atomic lattice, not an illustration.
Rock Salt (Halite)
The structure inside every grain of table salt
Rock salt - the face-centred cubic lattice from day one of every chemistry course.
Diamond
The hardest natural material — pure carbon locked in a cubic lattice
The textbook tetrahedral carbon network, in its most famous form.
Quartz
One of Earth's most abundant minerals — the crystal in your watch and your windowsill
Silicon dioxide - the helix of tetrahedra behind glass, sand, and watch crystals.
Perovskite
The crystal structure powering next-generation solar cells
The structure that named a whole family - from solar cells to superconductors.
Fluorite
The glassy, vividly coloured mineral that gave fluorescence its name
Calcium fluoride - the cubic lattice that defines the fluorite structure type.
Pyrite
The glittering iron sulfide crystal that fooled gold prospectors for centuries
Fool's gold, and a beautiful lesson in how a salt-like lattice can shine like metal.
Ice
The everyday crystal that covers polar caps and fills your glass
Frozen water - the hydrogen-bonded hexagonal lattice behind every snowflake.
Gold
The face-centred cubic structure of the most coveted metal on Earth
A single element, close-packed - elegant proof that simple can be stunning.