What If a Nonmagnetic Material Could Be Magnetic? (IMAGE)

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What If a Nonmagnetic Material Could Be Magnetic?

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Left: Nickel ions in Ni2Mo3O8 (spheres inside center of polygons) form a honeycomb lattice of tetrahedral (green) and octahedral (blue) polygons. Right: Excitations of the magnetism from the tetrahedral polygons form a neutron scattering pattern (orange).

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Image courtesy of Bin Gao, University of Missouri

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