Second natural quasicrystal ever found in ancient meteorite
Monday, March 16, 2015 - 18:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Scientists have discovered a quasicrystal -- so named because of its unorthodox arrangement of atoms -- in a 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite from a remote region of northeastern Russia, bringing to two the number of natural quasicrystals ever discovered.