A complete description of the structure of simple liquids is missing from our understanding of matter. But new observations show that liquids contain many configurations with five-fold symmetry.
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Spaepen, F. Five-fold symmetry in liquids . Nature 408, 781–782 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/35048652
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