quasicrystals
The First Ever Nuclear Bomb Produced a Bizarre Form of Matter
The oldest known “quasicrystal” made by humans has been discovered at the New Mexico site of the 1945 Trinity bomb test.
Scientists Find a Quasicrystal from Outer Space in a Russian Meteorite
How does an impossible material with forbidden symmetries form in the scattered grains of a meteorite? There’s no simple answer.
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