How To Use Monoclinic In A Sentence
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These are, in order of decreasing symmetry, the cubic, hexagonal, tetragonal, trigonal, orthorhombic, monoclinic, and triclinic systems.
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The fifth, the monoclinic -- or clinorhombic, monosymmetric, or oblique -- system, has also three axes, all of them unequal.
The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones
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Whereas monoclinic pyrrhotite is ferrimagnetic, the hexagonal variety is antiferromagnetic.
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It has no cleavage or parting and is biaxial positive, nonpleochroic, and monoclinic.
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Calcium metasilicate, CaSiO_3, occurs in nature as monoclinic crystals known as tabular spar or wollastonite; it may be prepared artificially from solutions of calcium chloride and sodium silicate.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
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Scolecite is monoclinic and typically occurs as slender prismatic crystals with a squarish cross section.
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The terrain was from northwest to southeast trend monoclinic dumping relief.
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The rhombic crystals that characterize sulphur at ordinary temperatures and pressures, give place to monoclinic crystals at 95.5 degrees C. Sulphur thus exists with two crystalline forms whose stability depends directly upon the temperature.
Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86
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These include a dangerous fibrous asbestos as well as the harmless monoclinic amphibole, actinolite: two minerals with the same composition but very different effects on human physiology.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
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Having determined the identity in chemical composition of the crystals, it was thought that there might be a difference of form of the crystals in the various plants, from the fact that calcium oxalate crystallizes both in the tetragonal and the monoclinic systems.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891
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The stacking of the tetrahedral and octahedral sheets in the chrysotile structure has been shown to yield three types of chrysotile fibers: clino-chrysotile: monoclinic stacking of the layers, x parallel to fiber axis, most abundant formortho-chrysotile: orthorhombic stacking of the layers, x parallel to fiber axispara-chrysotile: two layer structure, 180° rotation of two-layer structures, y parallel to fiber axis
Geology of asbestos
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Only orthorhombic, monoclinic and triclinic minerals can be trichroic since they have three unique axes of symmetry and therefore three unique directions that can absorb light in three different ways.
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All crystals display anomalous birefringence when viewed down the c-axis, indicating that they have lower than hexagonal symmetry - probably monoclinic or triclinic.
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Minute, monoclinic acanthite crystals on lead-hillite and silver are reported from the Mammoth-St. Anthony mine, Pinal County.
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Whereas monoclinic pyrrhotite is ferrimagnetic, the hexagonal variety is antiferromagnetic.
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Calcium metasilicate, CaSiO_3, occurs in nature as monoclinic crystals known as tabular spar or wollastonite; it may be prepared artificially from solutions of calcium chloride and sodium silicate.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
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To prepare the pure base a very concentrated solution of this pure hydrochlorate is treated with an excess of a very concentrated solution of caustic soda, and pieces of caustic potash are added, whereupon the free alkaloid separates out at first as a colorless resinous stringy mass, which, however, upon standing, turns crystalline, forming monoclinic crystals similar to tartaric acid or glycocol.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 315, January 14, 1882
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All crystals display anomalous birefringence when viewed down the c-axis, indicating that they have lower than hexagonal symmetry - probably monoclinic or triclinic.
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It is pale pink and has physical, optical, and crystallographic properties similar to those of the other monoclinic members of the amphibole group.
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These are, in order of decreasing symmetry, the cubic, hexagonal, tetragonal, trigonal, orthorhombic, monoclinic, and triclinic systems.
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Having determined the identity in chemical composition of the crystals, it was thought that there might be a difference of form of the crystals in the various plants, from the fact that calcium oxalate crystallizes both in the tetragonal and the monoclinic systems.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891
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_Calcium nitrate_, Ca (NO_3) _2·4H_2O, is a highly deliquescent salt, [v. 04 p. 0972] crystallizing in monoclinic prisms, and occurring in various natural waters, as an efflorescence in limestone caverns, and in the neighbourhood of decaying nitrogenous organic matter.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
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With grazing incidence diffraction a monoclinic tilted chain lattice is found in the condensed phase.
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The crystals are monoclinic, P2I, with two molecules in the unit cell, and X-ray photographs, taken of them with copper Ka-radiation show very markedly the effects of anomalous dispersion
Nobel Lecture The X-Ray Analysis Of Complicated Molecules
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The latter four minerals are polymorphs of quartz, meaning that they have the same chemical composition (silica), but different crystalline forms (tetragonal or monoclinic).
Quartz
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Such switching behaviour can be attributed to the kinematic partitioning of a bulk triclinic strain into end-member domains dominated by non-coaxial, monoclinic contraction and wrench simple shear.
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The stacking of the tetrahedral and octahedral sheets in the chrysotile structure has been shown to yield three types of chrysotile fibers: clino-chrysotile: monoclinic stacking of the layers, x parallel to fiber axis, most abundant formortho-chrysotile: orthorhombic stacking of the layers, x parallel to fiber axispara-chrysotile: two layer structure, 180° rotation of two-layer structures, y parallel to fiber axis
Geology of asbestos
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This insulin hexamer corresponds with the unit cell in the rhombohedral crystals first investigated and is the asymmetric unit in the monoclinic form which appears in the presence of phenol.
Nobel Lecture The X-Ray Analysis Of Complicated Molecules
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The latter four minerals are polymorphs of quartz, meaning that they have the same chemical composition (silica), but different crystalline forms (tetragonal or monoclinic).
Quartz
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The stacking of the tetrahedral and octahedral sheets in the chrysotile structure has been shown to yield three types of chrysotile fibers: clino-chrysotile: monoclinic stacking of the layers, x parallel to fiber axis, most abundant formortho-chrysotile: orthorhombic stacking of the layers, x parallel to fiber axispara-chrysotile: two layer structure, 180° rotation of two-layer structures, y parallel to fiber axis
Geology of asbestos
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The mineral crystallizes in the monoclinic system and commonly forms glassy complex crystals of varied habit.
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It is also monoclinic and biaxial positive.
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monoclinic system
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It is pale pink and has physical, optical, and crystallographic properties similar to those of the other monoclinic members of the amphibole group.
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The mineral brushite, CaHPO_4·2H_2O, which is isomorphous with the acid arsenate pharmacolite, CaHAsO_4·2H_2O, is an acid phosphate, and assumes monoclinic forms.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
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Only 7% of the analysed specimens contain monoclinic pyrrhotite, which can contribute to the total remanent magnetization of the rocks.