Crystals are everywhere. With few exceptions, the solid inorganic substances that make up our world are crystalline. This includes rocks, minerals, ceramics and metals.

1 It’s all about the rhythm: Crystals are repeating, three-dimensional arrangements of atoms, ions, or molecules. 2 Almost any solid material can crystallize—even DNA. Chemists from New York ...

The crystal chemistry of these minerals is governed by the interplay between the tetrahedral silicate units and various titanium-based polyhedra – often octahedral – that influence the ...

Pallasites contain big, beautiful olive-green crystals - a form of magnesium-iron silicate called olivine - embedded entirely in metal. Sometimes the olivine does not occur as a single crystal but as ...

Thousand-mile-per-hour winds are blowing a hail of tiny quartz crystals through the silicate-enhanced, scorching hot atmosphere of a distant gas giant planet called WASP-17b, the James Webb Space ...

Thousand-mile-per-hour winds are blowing a hail of tiny quartz crystals through the silicate-enhanced, scorching hot atmosphere of a distant gas giant planet called WASP-17b, the James Webb Space ...