Comment on “Reexamination of the structure of opal-A: A combined study of synchrotron X-ray diffraction and pair distribution function analysis”—Concerning opal
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The paper by Lee et al. (2022) touches on various issues of amorphous silicas. In this comment, I shall discuss them, aiming at the metric of amorphous solids in structure property relationships. These were initiated in a pioneering study in 1874 by le Bell followed by van‘t Hoff (Ramberg 2017), who showed optical activity in organic systems to be a consequence of a postulated edge or face sharing of tetrahedral carbon atoms. It was followed up by the Drude-Lorentz 1916 electron gas theory (cf. Ladd 1993) to account for transport properties of metals and, after Laue’s discovery...
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American Mineralogist: Journal of Earth and Planetary Materials (Am Min), is the flagship journal of the Mineralogical Society of America (MSA), continuously published since 1916. Am Min is home to some of the most important advances in the Earth Sciences. Our mission is a continuance of this heritage: to provide readers with reports on original scientific research, both fundamental and applied, with far reaching implications and far ranging appeal. Topics of interest cover all aspects of planetary evolution, and biological and atmospheric processes mediated by solid-state phenomena. These include, but are not limited to, mineralogy and crystallography, high- and low-temperature geochemistry, petrology, geofluids, bio-geochemistry, bio-mineralogy, synthetic materials of relevance to the Earth and planetary sciences, and breakthroughs in analytical methods of any of the aforementioned.