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Icosahedrite, the Glossary

Icosahedrite is the first known naturally occurring quasicrystal phase.^[1]

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Quasicrystals

Bya

bya or b.y.a. is an abbreviation for "billion years ago".

Carbonaceous chondrite

Carbonaceous chondrites or C chondrites are a class of chondritic meteorites comprising at least 8 known groups and many ungrouped meteorites.

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Corundum

Corundum is a crystalline form of aluminium oxide typically containing traces of iron, titanium, vanadium, and chromium. Icosahedrite and Corundum are aluminium minerals.

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Cupalite is a rare mineral which is mostly composed of copper and aluminium, but might contain up to several percent of zinc or iron; its chemical structure is therefore described by an approximate formula or. Icosahedrite and Cupalite are aluminium minerals, copper minerals, geology of Russia and Native element minerals.

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Dan Shechtman

Dan Shechtman (דן שכטמן; born January 24, 1941). Icosahedrite and Dan Shechtman are quasicrystals.

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Diopside

Diopside is a monoclinic pyroxene mineral with composition.

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Dov Levine

Dov I. Levine (דב לוין, born July 19, 1958) is an American-Israeli physicist, known for his research on quasicrystals, soft condensed matter physics (including granular materials, emulsions, and foams), and statistical mechanics out of equilibrium. Icosahedrite and Dov Levine are quasicrystals.

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Forsterite

Forsterite (Mg2SiO4; commonly abbreviated as Fo; also known as white olivine) is the magnesium-rich end-member of the olivine solid solution series.

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Hermann–Mauguin notation

In geometry, Hermann–Mauguin notation is used to represent the symmetry elements in point groups, plane groups and space groups.

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International Mineralogical Association

Founded in 1958, the International Mineralogical Association (IMA) is an international group of 40 national societies.

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Khatyrka (river)

The Khatyrka (Хатырка; Ватыркан) is a river in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia.

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Khatyrkite

Khatyrkite is a rare mineral which is mostly composed of copper and aluminium, but may contain up to about 15% of zinc or iron. Icosahedrite and Khatyrkite are aluminium minerals, copper minerals, geology of Russia and Native element minerals.

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Koryak Mountains

The Koryak Mountains or Koryak Highlands are an area of mountain ranges in Far-Eastern Siberia, Russia, located in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug and in Kamchatka Krai, with a small part in Magadan Oblast.

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Luca Bindi

Luca Bindi (born 1971) is an Italian geologist.

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Metallurgy is a domain of materials science and engineering that studies the physical and chemical behavior of metallic elements, their inter-metallic compounds, and their mixtures, which are known as alloys.

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Mineral

In geology and mineralogy, a mineral or mineral species is, broadly speaking, a solid substance with a fairly well-defined chemical composition and a specific crystal structure that occurs naturally in pure form.

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Nadia Drake

Nadia Drake (born July 6, 1980) is an American science journalist and is the interim Physics Editor at Quanta Magazine.

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Nepheline

Nepheline, also called nephelite, is a rock-forming mineral in the feldspathoid groupa silica-undersaturated aluminosilicate, Na3KAl4Si4O16, that occurs in intrusive and volcanic rocks with low silica, and in their associated pegmatites. Icosahedrite and Nepheline are aluminium minerals.

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Nobel Prize in Chemistry

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry (Nobelpriset i kemi) is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of chemistry.

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Paul Steinhardt

Paul Joseph Steinhardt (born December 25, 1952) is an American theoretical physicist whose principal research is in cosmology and condensed matter physics.

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Phase (matter)

In the physical sciences, a phase is a region of material that is chemically uniform, physically distinct, and (often) mechanically separable.

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Quasicrystal

A quasiperiodic crystal, or quasicrystal, is a structure that is ordered but not periodic. Icosahedrite and quasicrystal are quasicrystals.

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Serpentinite

Serpentinite is a metamorphic rock composed predominantly of one or more serpentine group minerals formed by near to complete serpentinization of mafic to ultramafic rocks.

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Sodalite

Sodalite is a tectosilicate mineral with the formula, with royal blue varieties widely used as an ornamental gemstone. Icosahedrite and Sodalite are aluminium minerals.

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Space group

In mathematics, physics and chemistry, a space group is the symmetry group of a repeating pattern in space, usually in three dimensions.

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Spinel

Spinel is the magnesium/aluminium member of the larger spinel group of minerals. Icosahedrite and spinel are aluminium minerals.

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Stishovite

Stishovite is an extremely hard, dense tetragonal form (polymorph) of silicon dioxide.

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Ultramafic rock

Ultramafic rocks (also referred to as ultrabasic rocks, although the terms are not wholly equivalent) are igneous and meta-igneous rocks with a very low silica content (less than 45%), generally >18% MgO, high FeO, low potassium, and are composed of usually greater than 90% mafic minerals (dark colored, high magnesium and iron content).

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University of Florence

The University of Florence (Italian: Università degli Studi di Firenze) (in acronym UNIFI) is an Italian public research university located in Florence, Italy.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icosahedrite