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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In crystallography, a double eight-sided pyramid belonging to the tetragonal system: so called because it is a common form with zircon.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Crystallog.) A double eight-sided pyramid, a form common with tetragonal crystals; -- so called because this form often occurs in crystals of zircon.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun crystallography A double eight-sided
pyramid , a form common withtetragonal crystals ; — so called because this form often occurs in crystals ofzircon .
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