Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Crystals







The 6 crystal forms are cubic, tetragonal, hexagonal, orthorhombic, monoclicic, and triclinic. A diamond occurs in cubic structures, zircon is in the tetragonal system, graphite is an example of a hexogonal crystal structure, ferrierite is a orthorhombic mineral, an example of a monoclinic mineral is jamesonite and an example of a triclinic mineral is turquoise.





1 comment:

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