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What is a pinacoid?

What is a pinacoid? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (crystallography) The face of a crystal parallel to two of the axes.
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There is an imperfect cleavage parallel to the basal pinacoid, and the fracture is conchoidal.
The largest crystals have a flake-like habit and are represented by a combination of a basal pinacoid and a hexagonal prism.

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