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Quasicrystals

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We commonly refer to two atomic arrangements when describing the structure of an ideal solid, namely a homogeneous, chemically pure single-phase solid, the crystal, with its periodic structure (see Chap. 1) and the random arrangement typical of the amorphous state (see Chap. 4).

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Ossi, P.M. (2003). Quasicrystals. In: Disordered Materials. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-05158-0_6

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