“…The crystalline structures of t,he normal alkanes have been investigated by a number of workers (At,kiiison and Richardson, 1969;Chernozhukov et al, 1962;Clarke, 1961;King and Garner, 1936;Mazee, 1948;XIiiller, 1932aXIiiller, , 1936aMiiller and Lonsdale, 1948;Schaerer et al, 1955;Smith, 1953). Each form can be classified into one of the sis systems used in optical methods of analysis in which each system has a definite arrangement of three or four ases about' which the crystal planes are symmetrically placed.…”