Love Burned, She Rose Unscathed novel Chapter 178

"Cough! Yes, but not entirely."

"What are quasi-crystals?"

"Quasi-crystals are a type of crystal structure where the atoms are arranged in a pattern that doesn't repeat periodically, sort of a halfway house between a crystal and an amorphous structure. The guy who discovered them, Dan Shechtman, he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2011 for it."

"Oh, I see... Wait a minute! Nobel what Prize?"

"Chemistry Prize."

"Uh! Aren't we supposed to be interviewing a grad student in biology today?"

How did we end up on physics and chemistry?

"Mr. Reynolds already mentioned that his next question would not be limited to biology."

"Yikes! Honestly, this question is a bit tough for an undergrad."

"She answered the earlier questions pretty well, just bad luck getting pinned by Owen..."

"Is it difficult?" Owen spoke up lightly, "Of course, you can choose not to answer."

Roseanne looked up, locking eyes with him: "Got a whiteboard and marker?"

The crux of the matter—"with data support"!

Support your answer with data.

Testing interdisciplinary skills.

"We do." Owen gestured for the staff to prepare.

Soon, the whiteboard was in place, and the marker handed to her.

Roseanne turned around and wrote down a chemical formula.

Then, using the chemical formula as a starting point, she analyzed the atomic structure of quasi-crystals.

There were two important principles involved, namely the icosahedral principle and the golden mean principle.

Under these principles, the simplest quasi-crystal structural model could be obtained, which could explain all the details of the high-resolution images of Al-Mn quasi-crystals.