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Caption: Around 70 calcium and carbonate ions come together to form a stable nanocluster, shown here schematically and not to scale. The structure of the crystal (right) is most likely already determined in this cluster.
Credit: Denis Gebauer / Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces
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