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Second natural quasicrystal ever found in ancient meteorite
Second natural quasicrystal ever found in ancient meteorite
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Scientists have 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.