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Pauling: Linus Pauling:
“When you get to the reconstructs from x-ray diffraction, Linus Pauling began to discover that all the metals were tetrahedrally organized, but instead of being vertex to vertex they were center of gravity to center of gravity. . . . An alloy could be stronger where you had congruent centers of gravity-- that was a characteristic of metals. In fact, because the tetrahedron has six edges you could chain or link it in six ways to six others and they would not be vertex to vertex but edge to edge as linkage. So the metals were tetrahedronally organized too and Linus Pauling went on examining metal after metal. He has never found a metal yet which is not tetrahedrally organized.”
