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2. On the Hexagonal System in Crystallography

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2014

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The forms of the uniaxial systems may be regarded as derived from forms, or parts of forms or combinations, of the regular system by uniform expansion or contraction in a direction parallel to the axis of the uniaxial system, i.e., normal to a face of the cube for the tetragonal, and normal to a face of the octahedron for the hexagonal system. Faces, therefore, which are, in the regular form or combination, at right angles to or parallel to such axis, retain their relative angular position unchanged in the uniaxial form or combination, and can be represented by means of indices referring to the rectangular axes of the regular system, whatever be the amount of the deformation (expansion or contraction). These faces are prism faces, parallel to the axis, and basal faces at right angles to it. All other faces have their angular position affected by the deformation.

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Proceedings 1184-85
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1886

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