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<Font color="black"> Geminato per riflessione </Font>(''It'')
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<Font color="blue"> Macle par reflexion </Font>(''Fr''). <Font color="black"> Geminato per riflessione </Font>(''It'').
  
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==Definition==
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Two crystals form a ''reflection [[twin]]'' when the [[twin operation]] is a reflection across a lattice plane  (''twin plane'').
  
  
 
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[[Category:Twinning]]
Two crystals forming a ''[[twin]]'' are symmetrically related by a reflection plane (''twin plane'').
 
 
 
 
 
[[Category:Fundamental crystallography]]
 

Revision as of 17:16, 15 April 2007

Macle par reflexion (Fr). Geminato per riflessione (It).

Definition

Two crystals form a reflection twin when the twin operation is a reflection across a lattice plane (twin plane).