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  2. Patterns in nature - Wikipedia

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    The structures of minerals provide good examples of regularly repeating three-dimensional arrays. Despite the hundreds of thousands of known minerals, there are rather few possible types of arrangement of atoms in a crystal , defined by crystal structure , crystal system , and point group ; for example, there are exactly 14 Bravais lattices for ...

  3. List of curves - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Wikipedia articles about curves used in different fields: ... Growth curve (statistics) Kruithof curve; ... Two Dimensional Curves;

  4. Lichen growth forms - Wikipedia

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    This is the most three-dimensional of the lichen growth forms, and the most sensitive to air pollution. [41] The term "fruticose" is derived from the Latin word fruticosus , meaning "shrubby" or "similar to a shrub" (from frutex , meaning "shrub").

  5. Lichen - Wikipedia

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    Common names for lichens often come from a growth form or color that is typical of a lichen genus. Common groupings of lichen thallus growth forms are: fruticose [36] [37] [38] – growing like a tuft or multiple-branched leafless mini-shrub, upright or hanging down, 3-dimensional branches with nearly round cross section or flattened

  6. Single-layer materials - Wikipedia

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    Two-dimensional alloys (or surface alloys) are a single atomic layer of alloy that is incommensurate with the underlying substrate. One example is the 2D ordered alloys of Pb with Sn and with Bi. [62] [63] Surface alloys have been found to scaffold two-dimensional layers, as in the case of silicene. [32]

  7. Crystal growth - Wikipedia

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    An example of the cubic crystals typical of the rock-salt structure [broken anchor]. Time-lapse of growth of a citric acid crystal. The video covers an area of 2.0 by 1.5 mm and was captured over 7.2 min. The interface between a crystal and its vapor can be molecularly sharp at temperatures well below the melting point.

  8. Stranski–Krastanov growth - Wikipedia

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    This layer-by-layer growth is two-dimensional, indicating that complete films form prior to growth of subsequent layers. [2] [3] Stranski–Krastanov growth is an intermediary process characterized by both 2D layer and 3D island growth. Transition from the layer-by-layer to island-based growth occurs at a critical layer thickness which is ...

  9. Spiral - Wikipedia

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    Two major definitions of "spiral" in the American Heritage Dictionary are: [7] a curve on a plane that winds around a fixed center point at a continuously increasing or decreasing distance from the point. a three-dimensional curve that turns around an axis at a constant or continuously varying distance while moving parallel to the axis; a helix.