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The use of the synchrotron Laue diffraction technique with a slit-collimated incident beam as a structural probe to examine solid-state phase transformations in single crystals is presented. The utility of the method is demonstrated through a study of the paraelectric-to-ferroelectric phase transition in ammonium sulfate at 223 K.