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Confocal image of substitutionally-disordered rhcp lattice

The crystal was formed, after 23 hours, in a suspension with volume fraction 0.507. The image, 8.2 microns away from a wall, depicts the close-packed {111} plane. The larger spheres
(component A) are shown in green and the smaller spheres (B) in red.