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Atom-bothering boffins have proved that a crystal previously only found in labs also occurs naturally - in outer space.
The scientists have found evidence that a 'quasicrystal' uncovered in Russia was actually part of a meteorite that fell to Earth rather than a material that was formed naturally on our home world.
Quasicrystals - the discovery of which bagged Daniel Shechtman of the Israel Institute of Technology last year's Nobel Prize in chemistry - have a structure that is orderly, but unlike regular crystals they're not translationally symmetrical. In other words, a quasicrystal
Originally posted by OrNaM3nT
A russian sattelite will crash to Earth on 15 January
Originally posted by OrNaM3nT
A russian sattelite will crash to Earth on 15 January