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Tetragonal vs Mackinawite - What's the difference?

tetragonal | mackinawite |

As an adjective tetragonal

is tetragonal.

As a noun mackinawite is

(mineralogy) a tetragonal iron nickel sulfide mineral that occurs as opaque bronze to grey-white tabular crystals and anhedral masses.

tetragonal

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Having four sides (as a tetragon); quadrilateral.
  • (crystallography) Having two equal axes and one unequal, and all angles 90°.

    • Derived terms

    * ditetragonal

    Coordinate terms

    * triclinic * monoclinic * orthorhombic * hexagonal * rhombohedral * cubic ----

    mackinawite

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (mineralogy) A tetragonal iron nickel sulfide mineral that occurs as opaque bronze to grey-white tabular crystals and anhedral masses.