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sheet structure of silica tetrahedrons

hexagonal mesh pattern

sheet structure of octahedral units

connection between tetrahedral and octahedral sheets

1:1 and 2:1 layer structures

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9 of the World’s Deadliest Snakes

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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

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7 of History's Most Notorious Serial Killers

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Water Fluoridation: Just the Facts

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7 Drugs that Changed the World

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How Deadly Is Quicksand?

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Is Cinco de Mayo Mexico's Independence Day?

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1:1 and 2:1 layer structures

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Basalt sample returned by Apollo 15, from near a long sinous lunar valley called Hadley Rille. Measured at 3.3 years old.

(Bed) Rocks and (Flint) Stones