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The name crystal has its origin in the Greek word krystallos, meaning ice. In the early Greek civilisation it was thought that rock crystal, to which the name krystallos first referred, was made of such intensely frozen ice that it could never melt again.
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Kovacs, T. (1969). Introduction to fundamental crystallography. In: Principles of X-Ray Metallurgy. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-5570-8_1
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