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Historically, the basic crystal entity was observed on crystallization from solution, primarily because in the dilute system the basic entities could be obtained in isolation, in contrast to crystallization from the melt, where the individual crystal entities are intimately interlocked and thus escape identification by straightforward inspection. It has taken many years of subsequent development until the same entities, which were already familiar from solution crystallization, could be identified also in the bulk melt-crystallized product where they are usually components of more complex aggregates (such as sheaves or spherulites).
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Keller, A. (1984). The Basic Crystal Unit. In: March, N., Tosi, M. (eds) Polymers, Liquid Crystals, and Low-Dimensional Solids. Physics of Solids and Liquids. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2367-9_3
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