This arrangement results in those familiar faceted faces we admire in quartz clusters and amethyst points. The repeating pattern is called a crystal lattice and gives the material its ...

One way of creating a time crystal is to knock some of the carbon atoms out of the crystal lattice of diamond, creating what ...

Right: OH-defects in young (0.3 Gyr) Variscan granites are one order of magnitude higher than in old (0.9-1.8 Gyr) Proterozoic granites from Scandinavia . The OH-content is reflected in recent ...