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smectic state
Liquid-crystalline state of some fatty acids and soaps in which bundles of long molecules are oriented into parallel layers. Smectic liquid crystals are composed of a series of planes. They glide rather than flow. When less completely oriented (nematic), they are distributed at random and flow.
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