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X-ray diffraction data for various materials reveal that naturally occurring microparacrystals cannot exceed a certain limiting size. The empirically obtained linear relationship between the square root of the limiting number of lattice planes within a paracrystal and the reciprocal value of the relative distance fluctuation between planes (degree of distortion) is discussed in the light of the paracrystal approach.