Any structural change affecting the density and chemical bonding in a substance will also affect its RI. Therefore, knowledge of RIs is very useful for understanding electronic structure of materials, especially in the case of fine powders, amorphous solids and glasses, which are difficult for X-ray diffraction methods.
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Batsanov, S. S., Ruchkin, E. D., & Poroshina, I. A. (2016). Chemical bonding and refractive indices. In SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology (pp. 17–30). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0797-2_3
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