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The relationship between intermediate-range order in glasses and disce
rnible features in the diffraction pattern of glassy materials is demo
nstrated experimentally by a direct comparison of the static-structure
factors of a material in its liquid stable crystal, rotator-phase cry
stal, orientational glass and amorphous phases. The orientationally di
sordered crystalline phases appear as an intermediate ordering stage b
etween the stable crystal and the glassy solid.