Dear Crystallographers, I have just found some crystals in a 1 year old screen, and, having been repeatedly trained to be very skeptical, think that probably they are salt. So the question: has anybody seen malonate crystals before? I was wondering whether they could possibly be birefringent, given that the molecular structure is not chiral. The crystals I see are very birefringent. None of the other ingredients is chiral either. In general, my understanding had been that the birefringence was due to the chirality of the molecules/crystals...is this misguided?
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