“…Fort ypical inorganic compounds,t hermal effects are relatively small and isotropic;l inear coefficients of thermal expansion a 1 (which are themselves temperature dependent) are typically less than 40 10 À6 K À1 .T ypical examples are (in units of 10 À6 K À1 ): corundum Al 2 O 3 (trigonal, 7.3 and 8.3) and rutile TiO 2 (tetragonal, 7.5 and 10.4); [40] NaCl (cubic,3 9) and KCl (cubic, 3 7). [41] In contrast, thermal effects for molecular crystals are greater and typically anisotropic;their magnitude in different crystal directions depends greatly on the strength and topology of the intermolecular interactions.T ypical examples are (in units of 10 À6 K À1 ): urea [39] (tetragonal, 90 and 15);benzene [42] (orthorhombic,71, 95 and 164 at 150 K); hexamethylenetetramine [39] (cubic,5 8);a nd L-alanine [43] (orthorhombic,9 4, 39 and À17). Many more examples have been reported by Haussühl, [39] including several exhibiting extreme anisotropic thermal expansion, such as benzophenone (orthorhombic,2 0, 43 and 354).…”