Quasicrystals and Other Aperiodic Structures in Mineralogy
In this article, we first present and discuss eighteenth-century descriptions of minerals that contributed decisively to the development of crystallography. Remarkably, these old crystallographic descriptions included morphologies with symmetries incompatible with an internal periodic order of atoms...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2016-10-01
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| Series: | Crystals |
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| Online Access: | http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4352/6/11/137 |