Haüy law
Haüy law
[ä′wē ‚lȯ] (crystallography)
The law that for a given crystal there is a set of ratios such that the ratios of the intercepts of any crystal plane on the crystal axes are rational fractions of these ratios.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.