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Does a rock have a crystal structure?

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Answer:Chemical bonds break. The rocks' well-ordered lattice of atoms breaks down and rearranges itself. In short, crystals change their size, shape, and orientation within rocks. Using optical and electron microscopes, we can detect these changes in rocks' crystalline structure.

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