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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Encapsulating copper nanoparticles within hydrophobic porous silicate crystals has been shown by scientists at Tokyo Tech to significantly enhance the catalytic activity of copper-zinc oxide ...

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 ...