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Explain why neither the oil nor the glass fiber interferes with the diffraction pattern of the crystal.

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It's because The oil and the glass fibers do not interfere with X-ray crystallographic measurements because only one is crystalline.
Glass fibers have a low absorbance for X-rays and is not crystalline. Because of this, glass fibers will not interfere with X-Ray patterns. Oil, on the other hand, could be considered as crytalline.
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