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Figure 8
There's crystal and `crystal'. In a true crystal the atoms are arranged like the wooden bricks in this wall. In glass the atoms are disordered, like the same bricks in this pile; if you try to build the wall too fast, you just get a pile of bricks. Source: Voyage dans le cristal.

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Volume 48| Part 4| August 2015| Pages 1276-1289
https://doi.org/10.1107/S160057671501064X
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