Molecules with five-fold symmetry arrange themselves on a surface as a two-dimensional crystal, although theoretically this ought not to be possible. Recently researchers in Switzerland have taken ...

Most other crystal structures are two-fold, three-fold, four-fold, or six-fold patterns. The significance to the five-fold rotational symmetry is that it does not exhibit repeating patterns.

But new observations show that liquids contain many configurations with five-fold symmetry. ... as in a face-centred cubic crystal; or b, an icosahedral arrangement, as found in a liquid.

Called icosahedrite, that quasicrystal had the 5-fold symmetry of a soccer ball, and it originated in an extraterrestrial body formed around 4.57 billion years ago.

A rare and bewildering intermediate between crystal and glass can be the most stable arrangement for some combinations of ...

A normal crystal – what physicists call a periodic crystal – might have 2-, 3-, 4-, or 6-fold symmetry. But some kinds of symmetry, like 5-fold and 7-fold, are totally out of the question. It ...

Ordered materials with 7-fold, 9-fold or 11-fold symmetries are never observed in nature. Researchers discovered the reason for this when they tried to impose a 7-fold symmetry on a layer of ...

A crystal, formed during the first nuclear bomb test at Trinity, ... 1945, in New Mexico—created a crystal with a five-fold rotational symmetry that defies the usual laws of crystallography.

However, more complicated structures with 5-fold, 8-fold or 10-fold rotation symmetry also exist. ... both consist of carbon atoms and differ solely in their crystal symmetry.

At 5:30 A.M. local time on July 16th, 1945, a bomb was detonated in the deserts of New Mexico at a site 210 miles south of Los Alamos, codename Trinity. The intense heat and pressure emanating off ...

MR. B. G. BAGLEY'S interesting letter 1 on this topic, by making contrasts with quintuple twins, seems continually to argue that his structure should be regarded as one pentasymmetric crystal. I ...

The process involved here sounds unwieldy, but is, in fact, quite simple: a material has a 6-fold rotation symmetry if the arrangement of its atoms remains unchanged when it is rotated by 60 degrees - ...