Thursday, April 25, 2013

Vaterite: Crystal within a crystal helps resolve an old puzzle

Vaterite: Crystal within a crystal helps resolve an old puzzle: Now, however, a team of scientists... has discovered the crystalline secrets of vaterite with the help of a needlelike spicule from a sea squirt found in the Mediterranean and Red Seas. Writing today... report that vaterite is composed of two different crystal structures that "coexist within a pseudo-single crystal."

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