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What does triclinic mean?

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  1. (crystallography) Having three unequal axes all intersecting at oblique angles.
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They found that the most prevalent defect was formation of a new triclinic polytype, with an ionic arrangement closely related to that in the accepted structure.
They are triclinic, with cleavages meeting at approximately 86 degrees.
These are, in order of decreasing symmetry, the cubic, hexagonal, tetragonal, trigonal, orthorhombic, monoclinic, and triclinic systems.
We then indexed the remaining K-feldspar peaks assuming a triclinic unit cell according to Appendix A11 of Ribbe.
The K-feldspar has local development of mottled texture due to variable inversion to triclinic microcline, and quartz has rare subgrain development.
All the sodium, sodium-calcium, and calcium species are triclinic, except the rare monoclinic sodium felspar barbierite.

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