Even crystalline solids such as glaciers resist categorization, as their atoms can flow, albeit very slowly. And sometimes the reverse also seems true: The ocean feels rigid if you jump onto it ...

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And this is only the beginning of what is possible, since the method can be applied to almost any crystalline solid. It can also be applied to producing many different crystal structures.

Figure 1 – Structure of chromium (III) diphenyl dicarboxylate, one of the gigantic respiration crystalline solids, in its crude form following synthesis (middle), with all traces of solvent ...