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On the determination the optic axes of a crystal from extinction-angles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

Harold Hilton
Harold Hilton*
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Bedford College (University of London)
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Various authors have discussed the problem how to determine the position of the optic axes of a biaxial crystal when the extinction-angles on n different faces have been observed. It has been proved that a unique solution is possible when n = 1, 2, or 4, according as the crystal is orthorhombic, monoclinic, or triclinic. It is assumed (and will be assumed in this paper) that the n faces have general positious. The result is uot true, if one or more of the faces has a specialized position. For instance, the extinction-angle ou a face of an orthorhombic crystal which is parallel to an axis of symmetry will obviously not suffice to determine the position of the optic axes.

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Research Article
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Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 19 , Issue 95 , December 1921 , pp. 233 - 239
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1921

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References

page 233 note 1 Weber, L., Zeits. Krist., 1921, vol. 56, pp. 1–11, 96-103Google Scholar; A. Johnsen, Centralblatt Min., 1919, pp. 321-325 [Min. Abstr., vol. 1, p.222].

page 236 note 1 The approximate posiLions of the two hyperbola% and therefore of H and K, are obvious at once when A, B, p, p', q, q', are drawn. It may be preferable in practice to draw the portions of each hyperbola near H, K by freehand, and find where they meet. The first hyperbola is easily drawn by getting the point where it meets any transversal through A ; using the facb tha~ the parts intercepted on any line between a hyperbola and its asymptotes are equal. Similarly for the secoud hyperbola.

page 237 note 1 See Hilton, ‘Plane Algebraic Curves,’ 1920, ch. xv. The method of constructing the cubic will be intelligible without a knowledge of the theory of cubic curves, if the proofs of some of the statements are taken for granted.

page 238 note 1 We leave the simple geometric proof to The reader.

page 239 note 1 Klingatsch, A., Sitzungsber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math.-naturw. Kl., 1914, vol. 123, Abt. II a, p. 745Google Scholar.