crystal system

A Dictionary of Earth Sciences | 1999 | 269 words | Copyright

crystal system (crystal group) One of the seven systems or groups into which crystals can be placed by reference to their crystallographic axes. It is possible to arrange the 14 Bravais lattices into seven systems (groups) each characterized by a primitive (p) lattice.

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