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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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