"involve strong twists around a direction normal to the positive optical axis".

Scientists have followed Friedel's classification and the term mesophase for the intermediate states has also been adopted from him. He was of the conviction that the term liquid crystal did not bear scrutiny. Indeed,
:The liquid crystals were not crystals at all, but peculiar liquids with some hint of solid properties.

In 1931, Georges

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