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Orthorhombic vs Macropinacoid - What's the difference?

orthorhombic | macropinacoid |

As a adjective orthorhombic

is (crystallography) having three unequal axes at right angles.

As a noun macropinacoid is

one of the two planes of an orthorhombic crystal which are parallel to the vertical and longer lateral (macrodiagonal) axes.

orthorhombic

English

Adjective

(-)
  • (crystallography) having three unequal axes at right angles

    • See also

    * triclinic * monoclinic * hexagonal * rhombohedral * tetragonal * cubic * pseudoorthorhombic

    macropinacoid

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One of the two planes of an orthorhombic crystal which are parallel to the vertical and longer lateral (macrodiagonal) axes.
    • (Webster 1913)