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monoclinic system

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monoclinic system [¦män·ə′klin·ik ‚sis·təm]
(crystallography)
One of the six crystal systems characterized by a single, two-fold symmetry axis or a single symmetry plane.


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In all cases then, the practice for the monoclinic system would be to select a conventional cell based on the shortest vectors in the ac plane (b-axis unique) for primitive as well as centered cells.
In addition, to facilitate the use of these conventions, Volume A of the International Tables for Crystallography has been expanded to give explicitly the required space group settings in the monoclinic system (e.
 
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