Separated Zn cluster entities unexpectedly occur in the solid-state structure of Mn Ga Zn (the central building block is shown). They correspond to centered cuboctahedra, that is, small volumes of face-centered cubic metal. The intriguing segregation of Ga and Zn atoms in Mn Ga Zn was verfied by Rietveld refinement of neutron powder diffraction data.
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