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BENEATH the immense variety of Nature's structures lie certain remarkable simplicities. Thus the elements used in the building are surprisingly few in number. There are but ninety -two in all, of which only a few are of common occurrence, and many are used very sparingly. Indeed there are one or two of which it can only be said that they should exist, though as yet they have not been found. Oxygen constitutes half of the known world, half the remainder is silicon; aluminium comes next. In living things carbon is one of the most important elements, yet it constitutes only a fraction of one per cent of the world as a whole.
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Bragg, W. Recent Crystallography. Nature 139, 865–866 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139865a0
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