Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to a crystalline structure of three mutually perpendicular axes of different length.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Rectangular and rhombic.
- In crystallography, noting the system of crystallography which is characterized by three unequal axes intersecting at right angles; belonging to this system: as, sulphur is orthorhombic. Also called
trimetric . Seecrystallography .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Crystallog.) Noting the system of crystallization which has three unequal axes at right angles to each other; trimetric. See
crystallization .
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- adjective crystallography having three
unequal axes atright angles
Etymologies
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Examples
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Today I learned that topaz is a mineral, the fluosilicate of aluminum, usually occurring in prismatic orthorhombic crystals of various colors.
The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011
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Today I learned that topaz is a mineral, the fluosilicate of aluminum, usually occurring in prismatic orthorhombic crystals of various colors.
The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011
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Hmm all of these with the exception of Diamond can be found as a orthorhombic structure.
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Ice type XI is the orthorhombic form if any care to know.
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Rutile is made up mostly of titanium dioxide with two rarer polymorphs anatase or octahedrite, which is a tetragonal mineral of pseudo-octahedral habit, and brookite, which is an orthorhombic mineral, the Doctor explained to her.
Update amberfocus 2008
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In fact, the RM 022's honeycomb orthorhombic titanium aluminide baseplate comes straight from NASA research into supersonic aircraft wings.
The Edge of Time Joshua Levine 2010
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Mercury fulminate crystals are orthorhombic and the crystal consists, as expected, of separate Hg (CNO) 2 molecules.
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As Wolfgang Beck, Thomas Klapötke and their team report in the journal ZAAC – Journal of Inorganic and General Chemistry, the orthorhombic crystals consist of separate, nearly linear Hg (CNO) 2 molecules.
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The stacking of the tetrahedral and octahedral sheets in the chrysotile structure has been shown to yield three types of chrysotile fibers: clino-chrysotile: monoclinic stacking of the layers, x parallel to fiber axis, most abundant formortho-chrysotile: orthorhombic stacking of the layers, x parallel to fiber axispara-chrysotile: two layer structure, 180° rotation of two-layer structures, y parallel to fiber axis
Geology of asbestos 2007
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When the beings passed beneath Theriaults feet, she recognized the faceted shapes of their orthorhombic component structures.
Reap the Whirlwind David Mack 2007
john commented on the word orthorhombic
"In crystallography, the orthorhombic crystal system is one of the 7 lattice point groups."
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August 25, 2007