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What did Dan Shechtman discover?

  • Higgs Boson

  • Quasiperiodic Crystals

  • DNA Double Helix

  • Atomic Fusion

Answer

Quasicrystals, sometimes called aperiodic crystals, are a type of solid matter that have a periodic arrangement of atoms, but in a way that is not repeated in all directions. This means that they do not have a regular crystal structure like other solids, and they have a different set of symmetries.
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