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Record 1 2016-02-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mineralogy

French

Domaine(s)
  • Minéralogie
DEF

Système cristallin dont deux des trois axes sont de longueur égale (a = b), formant entre eux un angle de 120° dans le même plan; le troisième axe (c), perpendiculaire à ce plan, est de longueur différente.

OBS

Pour être hexagonal, un cristal doit posséder un axe de symétrie d'ordre 6.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Mineralogía
DEF

[Sistema cristalino que consta de un] prima recto de base hexagonal [que] tiene un eje principal entre el centro de ambas bases y seis ejes, iguales tres a tres, que forman ángulos de 90° con aquél y de 30° entre ellos[,] tiene un centro y 7 planos de simetría.

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