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Sodium Chloride Whiskers

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DURING the annealing of sodium chloride crystals we have found several interesting phenomena1. Some of these have already been reported previously2.

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TURCHÁNYI, G., HORVÁTH, T. & TARJÁN, I. Sodium Chloride Whiskers. Nature 193, 867–868 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/193867b0

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