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The notion of natural quasicrystals is here to stay
In November 2008, Luca Bindi, a curator at the Universita degli Studi di Firenze, Italy, found that the alloy of aluminium and copper called khatyrkite could be a quasicrystal. Bindi couldn’t be sure because he didn’t have the transmission electron microscope necessary to verify his … Continue reading
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Tagged crystallography, Dan Shechtman, icosahedrite, khatyrkite, Luca Bindi, natural quasicrystals, Paul Steinhardt, Virat Markandeya
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