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nounstancite (uncountable)
- uncountableA metastable allotrope of tin
Herein, by using the first principles calculations, we discover a new metastable allotrope of Ge and Sn in the staggered layered dumbbell structure, named as germancite and stancite, to be Dirac semi-metals with a pair of Dirac points on its rotation axis.
2016, Wendong Cao, Peizhe Tang, Shou-Cheng Zhang, Wenhui Duan, Angel Rubio, “Stable Dirac semi-metal in the allotrope of IV elements”, in arXiv
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