| Abstract: | Single crystal platelets of cadmium iodide have been grown from alcohols: n-propyl, isobutyl and isoamyl and from their aqueous solutions. The structures of 880 crystals has been identified and the effect of solvent on the polytype structure of CdI2 has been discussed regarding: the stability of the basic structures 2H and 4H, the structure of complex polytypes, the effect of the solvent on the structure of faults, the period of polytypes. Some relations indicating the role of the solvent in the formation of polytype structure of CdI2 have been found. |
