Zircon (Twinning)

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In the tetragonal system, the unit pyramid of the second order is the most common twinning plane. This is represented here as it occurs on crystals of Zircon, bounded by the forms (m), (u), (p), and (o).

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George Huntington Williams, Ph.D. Elements of Crystallography for Students of Chemistry, Physics, and Mineralogy (New York, NY: Henry Holt and Company, 1892)

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