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Single-crystal x-ray diffraction measurements made on a millimeter-size single icosahedral quasicrystal of an Al–Li–Cu alloy are reported. The point symmetries observed directly by real-time transmission Laue x-ray diffraction and the measured angles between the major symmetry axis are consistent with an icosahedral quasicrystal, and the peaks observed in the single-crystal diffraction scans are found to be indexable with six indices that belong to a primitive icosahedral Bravais quasilattice.
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Kortan, A.R., Chen, H.S. & Waszczak, J.V. Single-crystal x-ray diffraction from an icosahedral quasicrystal. Journal of Materials Research 2, 294–297 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1557/JMR.1987.0294
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