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After being shaken for about a week, thousands of millimetre-sized metal beads arranged themselves into an exotic structure called a quasicrystal \u2013 and it was the biggest one yet. The creation also helped the researcher behind it win a bet against a colleague.<\/p>\n

For something to be a crystal<\/a>, its building blocks must be arranged in a repeating pattern, like the perfect grids of atoms in salt crystals. Within quasicrystals, some arrangements do repeat but never in a uniform or predictable way.<\/p>\n

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