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Published online 23 January 2008 | Nature 451, 383 (2008) | doi:10.1038/451383a
Corrected online: 24 January 2008

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Huge crystal baffles chemists

Molecular cluster defies accurate analysis.

A giant molecular bauble, by far the largest single-molecule metal-cluster ever made, is confounding chemists. Involving almost 500 silver atoms, the crystals are so large and complex that their creators cannot figure out their structure.

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