Stacking Fault Tetrahedra in Gold

 
This micrograph shows what you find when you quench Au from high temperature, trying to quench in the thermal equilibrium vacancies.
The vacancies had enough time to agglomerate to some extent, and their preferred form of agglomerate - as in many other fcc crystals - are stacking fault tetrahedra.
 
 

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