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combined twinning
A rare type of twinning in quartz in which there appears to be a 180 degrees rotation around c with reflection over (1120) or over (0001). The crystal axes are parallel, but the polarity of the a axis is not reversed in the twinned parts.
- Kalbos dalis: noun
- Pramonės šaka / sritis: Mining
- Category: General mining; Mineral mining
- Government Agency: USBM
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