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Science 12 January 1973:
Vol. 179. no. 4069, pp. 177 - 179
DOI: 10.1126/science.179.4069.177
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Crystalline Ordering in Silica and Germania Glasses

J. H. Konnert 1, J. Karle 1, and G. A. Ferguson 2

1 Laboratory for the Structure of Matter, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C. 20390
2 Naval Research Laboratory and Howard University, Washington, D.C. 20001

The diffraction patterns of both silica and germania glasses are consistent with a structure in which nearly all of the atoms belong to tridymite-like regions of up to about 20 angstroms or more that are bonded efficiently together in a manner analogous to that found in twinned crystals.


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