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Considerable interest has been focused recently in physics and in mineralogy on the existence and origin of modulated crystal structures. These have the important and fundamental characteristic that they cannot properly be denned in terms of a conventional simple unit cell and space group.
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C. McConnell, J.D. (1992). The stability of modulated structures. In: Price, G.D., Ross, N.L. (eds) The Stability of Minerals. The Mineralogical Society Series, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-585-27578-9_6
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