any solid with conventional crystalline properties but exhibiting a point group symmetry inconsistent with translational periodicity
QUASICRYSTAL is a
12
letter word starting with
Q
and ending with
L
Definitions & Synonyms
noun -
A structural form of solid matter that exhibits symmetrical patterns not seen in ordinary crystals, discovered by physicist Dan Shechtman in 1982, which awarded him the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 2011.