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Crystal structure of argon

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Solid argon is stable in the face-centered cubic structure at all temperatures, but it is found that it can also crystallize in a metastable form with hexagonal close-packed structure. ... Small amounts of nitrogen, oxygen, or CO stabilize the hcp phase at temperatures near the melting point.

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