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Science 4 January 2008:
Vol. 319. no. 5859, pp. 41 - 42
DOI: 10.1126/science.1153272
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CHEMISTRY:
A Phase Transition Hidden in Higher Dimensions

Philip Coppens

A molecular solid can change from one structure to another in a way that can only be described properly using four-dimensional space.

The author is in the Department of Chemistry, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 14260-3000, USA. E-mail: coppens{at}buffalo.edu

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