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Анотація:A longstanding experience of the authors and their colleagues from other organizations in the field of growth of corundum crystals with specified physical-chemical characteristics and study of their properties has been summarized in this book. The authors describe the main trends in the evolution of the growth methods, basic fields of application of crystals in modern engineering.The methods of investigation of structure defects and their correlation with the mechanisms of crystal formation have been considered.An extensive reference material on properties and application of crystals for specialists in solid state physics, material research science, instrument-making industry is given in the appendices.