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Dust in plasma can form floating crystals

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Fire up a plasma chamber without Earth's gravity dragging things down, and charged dust particles suddenly get hyper-organized. On the International Space Station, uncontained dust floating in ionized gas repels itself into flawless, levitating crystalline structures. It turns out that dirt suspended in hot plasma has an incredible sense of interior design.

Dust in plasma can form floating crystals
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