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The structure and morphology of α-quartz

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Some features of the quartz morphology such as the well-developed nature of the faces of the primary rhombo-hedron, their position to the left of electric axes in left quartz, and the plane and the nature of the cleavage in quartz have been explained on the basis of the crystal structure.

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  1. Department of Physics, University of Allahabad, India

    Bishambhar Dayal Saksena & Krishna Gopal Srivastava

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(Communicated by Sir C. V. Raman)

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Saksena, B.D., Srivastava, K.G. The structure and morphology of α-quartz. Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. (Math. Sci.) 29, 189 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03171366

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