Dust particles embedded in ionized plasma can be made to assemble into crystals of a kind, offering new routes with possible astrophysical implications to the study of the crystalline state.
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Maddox, J. Plasma dust as model crystals. Nature 370, 411 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1038/370411a0
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