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		xvedejas on Oct 30, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Disappearing Polymorphs Are there any promising paths towards preventing this? Seeding clean rooms with other chiral molecules that can encourage the lost higher energy form of a crystal, maybe?

izme on Oct 30, 2023 | [–]

It also makes you wonder if novel crystal forms could be discovered by purposely seeding the process with other arbitrary seeds.

greggsy on Oct 30, 2023 | [–]

I wonder if you could also detect it using some other harmless but otherwise volatile material?

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