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MR. B. G. BAGLEY'S interesting letter1 on this topic, by making contrasts with quintuple twins, seems continually to argue that his structure should be regarded as one pentasymmetric crystal. I suggest that this notion is invalid on two distinct grounds.
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Bagley, B. G., Nature, 208, 674 (1965).
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CLARKE, J. A Dense Packing of Hard Spheres with Five-fold Symmetry. Nature 211, 280 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/211280a0
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