For more than a quarter century, scientists have been trying to determine the structure of a particular form of solid oxygen.
TWO BY FOURS. Under high pressure, oxygen molecules (labeled O1-O2 and O3-O3) aggregate into groups of four, each of which is surrounded by four neighbors. Such a grouping of molecules had never been observed.
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