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Some divalent cation soaps are known to exhibit a body-centred cubic phase at high temperatures. X-ray crystallography now shows that the polar groups (cations and carbonyl groups) are arranged so as to form interwoven three-dimensional networks embedded in a continuous matrix formed by disordered paraffin chains.
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LUZZATI, V., SPEGT, P. Polymorphism of Lipids. Nature 215, 701–704 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/215701a0
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