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From the study of angles between faces and cleavage planes of crystals T. Bergman and R. Haüy concluded, independently, around 1780, that all crystals consist of a masonry-type arrangement of equal parallelepipedal building bricks. Later it was recognized that there are seven crystallographic unit cells of crystals.
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(2006). Classification of Crystals, Point Groups, and Space Groups. In: Structure and Chemistry of Crystalline Solids. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-36687-3_2
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