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See also:BIPYRAMIDAL CLASS (Parallel-faced aemihedral) . Here there is a See also:plane of .symmetry perpendicular to the hexad See also:axis; there is also a centre of symmetry . All the closed forms are hexagonal bipyramids; the open forms are hexagonal prisms or the basal pinacoid . The See also:general See also:form Ihikl} is hemihedral with parallel faces with respect to the general form of the See also:holosymmetric class . See also:Apatite (q.v.), See also:pyromorphite, See also:mimetite and See also:vanadinite possess this degree of symmetry . |
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