Second natural quasicrystal found in ancient meteorite
Princeton NJ (SPX) Mar 18, 2015 - A team from Princeton University and the University of Florence in Italy has discovered a quasicrystal - so named because of its unorthodox arrangement of atoms - in a 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite from a remote region of northeastern Russia, bringing to two the number of natural quasicrystals ever discovered. Prior to the team finding the first natural quasicrystal in 2009, researchers thoug ... more
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