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What does tetragonal mean?

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Adjective
  1. Having four sides (as a tetragon); quadrilateral.
  2. (crystallography) Having two equal axes and one unequal, and all angles 90°.
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Zircon commonly forms curved tetragonal crystals that radiate from a base of biotite crystals and terminate in adjacent feldspar.
The crystals are stepped tetragonal pyramids associated with chrysocolla.
The zircon, hyacinth, jacinth, or jargoon belong to the tetragonal system of crystallization.
Rutile is a tetragonal mineral famous for its variety of crystal habits and twinning.
Small, black, tetragonal anatase crystals associated with rutile were found on microcline by Kile.
RyRs are disposed in a tetragonal arrangement, and groups of four DHPRs, or tetrads, are associated with alternate RyRs, forming a related array.

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