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Bob's Rock Shop: Introduction to Crystallography and Mineral Crystal Systems (1188 words) |
 | The axes are designated as follows: the inclined axis is a and slopes out of the paper towards the viewer, the vertical axis is c, and the remaining axis which is at right angle to the plane of the a and c axes is b. |
 | The second monoclinic symmetry class is m and represents a single vertical mirror plane (010) that includes the c and a crystallographic axes. |
 | The third monoclinic symmetry class is 2 and represents a 2-fold axis of rotation on the b crystallographic axis. |
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Monoclinic - definition of Monoclinic in Encyclopedia (130 words) |
 | In crystallography, the monoclinic crystal system is one of the 7 lattice point groups. |
 | In the monoclinic system, the crystal is described by vectors of unequal length, as in the orthorhombic system. |
 | There exist two monoclinic Bravais lattices: the simple monoclinic and the centered monoclinic lattices. |