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A PUZZLING feature of the Periodic Table has been that certain of the elements, such as indium, cadmium and zinc, while possessing typically metallic properties, have structures which are slight distortions of close-packed metallic structures.
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GRAHAM, J. Distortions in Metallic Structures. Nature 185, 29–30 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/185029b0
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