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  2. Orthorhombic crystal system - Wikipedia

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    In crystallography, the orthorhombic crystal system is one of the 7 crystal systems.Orthorhombic lattices result from stretching a cubic lattice along two of its orthogonal pairs by two different factors, resulting in a rectangular prism with a rectangular base (a by b) and height (c), such that a, b, and c are distinct.

  3. Category:Orthorhombic minerals - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Orthorhombic minerals" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 335 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .

  4. Raphide - Wikipedia

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    Raphides in Epipremnum Devil's ivy (600× magnification). Raphides (/ ˈ r æ f ɪ d i z / RAF-id-eez; singular raphide / ˈ r eɪ f aɪ d / RAY-fyde or raphis) are needle-shaped crystals of calcium oxalate monohydrate (prismatic monoclinic crystals) or calcium carbonate as aragonite (dipyramidal orthorhombic crystals), found in more than 200 families of plants.

  5. Category : Chemical elements with primitive orthorhombic ...

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    Pages in category "Chemical elements with primitive orthorhombic structure" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.

  6. Glossary of geology - Wikipedia

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    A fossilized specimen of human or animal dung. cordierite A silicate of aluminium, iron and magnesium with water, which crystallises in the orthorhombic system and occurs mainly in metamorphic rocks. core The innermost layer(s) of a planet, referring especially to the Earth's core. corestone

  7. Diaspore - Wikipedia

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    Diaspore (/ ˈ d aɪ. ə ˌ s p ɔːr /) – also called diasporite, empholite, kayserite, or tanatarite – is an aluminium hydroxide oxide mineral, α-AlO(OH), crystallizing in the orthorhombic system and isomorphous with goethite.

  8. Mordenite - Wikipedia

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    Mordenite from Italy. Synthetic Mordenite is used as a catalyst in the petrochemical industry for the acid-catalyzed isomerisation of alkanes and aromatics.; In New Zealand mordenite-bearing zeolitic tuff is dried and crushed to produce a variety of products including adsorbents for soaking up oil/chemical spills and animal wastes, animal feed supplements, water treatment, and sports turf and ...

  9. Floral symmetry - Wikipedia

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    Satyrium carneum.Ground orchid with typical zygomorphic floral anatomy. Zygomorphic ("yoke shaped", "bilateral" – from the Greek ζυγόν, zygon, yoke, and μορφή, morphe, shape) flowers can be divided by only a single plane into two mirror-image halves, much like a yoke or a person's face.