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<Font color="blue"> Macle par rotation </Font> (''Fr''). <Font color="black"> Geminato per rotazione </Font>(''It'')
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<Font color="blue"> Macle par rotation </Font> (''Fr''). <Font color="black"> Geminato per rotazione </Font>(''It''). <Font color="purple"> 回転晶双 </Font>(''Ja'')
  
 
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==Definition==
Two crystals forming a ''[[twin]]'' are symmetrically related by a rotation axis (''twin axis'').
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Two crystals form a ''rotation [[twin]]'' when the [[twin operation]] is a rotation about a lattice row (''twin axis'').
  
 
==See also ==
 
==See also ==
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[[Category:Fundamental crystallography]]
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[[Category:Twinning]]

Revision as of 17:19, 15 April 2007

Macle par rotation (Fr). Geminato per rotazione (It). 回転晶双 (Ja)

Definition

Two crystals form a rotation twin when the twin operation is a rotation about a lattice row (twin axis).

See also

Chapter 3.3 of International Tables of Crystallography, Volume D