Abstract
Rare earth clusters are produced by the inert gas condensation technique. The observed size distribution shows large peaks atn=13, 19, 23, 26, 29, 32, 34, 37, 39, 45, ... The beginning of this sequence (up to 34) has been already observed in argon clusters and recently by our group in barium clusters; this sequence may be interpreted in terms of icosahedral structures corresponding to the addition of caps on a core icosahedron of 13 atoms.
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