Defn: A hydrous sulphate of lead and copper occurring in bright blue monoclinic crystals.
Defn: A sulphide of antimony, lead, and silver, occuring inmonoclinic crystals.
Defn: Common or potash feldspar crystallizing in the monoclinic system and having two cleavages at right angles to each other.
Sulphur can be obtained in two crystalline modifications, in orthorhombic octahedra, or in monoclinic prisms, the former of which is the more stable at ordinary temperatures.
Defn: The diagonal or lateral axis in a monoclinic crystal which is at right angles with the vertical axis.
Defn: A common mineral occurring in monoclinic crystals, with a prismatic angle of nearly 90º, and also in massive forms which are often laminated.
Defn: Breaking in directions at right angles to each other; -- said of the monoclinic feldspars.
Defn: A mineral of a light indigo-blue color, occurring in small masses, or in monoclinic crystals; blue spar.
Defn: A name given to the two planes in the monoclinic system which are parallel to the vertical and orthodiagonal axes.
Defn: A mineral of the Zeolite family, often occurring in amygdaloid, in foliated masses, and also in monoclinic crystals with pearly luster on the cleavage face.
It occurs inmonoclinic crystals, also fibrous, massive, and earthy.
They crystallize in the monoclinicand triclinic systems; and all possess easy cleavage in two directions at right angles to each other, or nearly so.
Orthoclase crystallizes in the monoclinic system, and all the other feldspars in the triclinic system.
Monoclinic system: usually in rhombic or six-sided prisms which may be short and thick, but are more often acicular or bladed.
A hydrous silicate of magnesia never in distinct crystals as such, but shown to be monoclinic under the microscope.
Most common by far are those which crystallize in the monoclinic system with prismatic faces and two good prismatic cleavages meeting at about 24 degrees.
An azure-blue hydrous carbonate of copper which crystallizes commonly in small monoclinic crystals.
Pyroxenes crystallizing in the monoclinic system are the most important.
All crystallize in monoclinic six-sided prisms whose angles are nearly 120 degrees.
Monoclinic crystals common, usually of simple forms, as shown by Figure 75i.
That diagonal or lateral axis in a monoclinic crystal which makes an oblique angle with the vertical axis.
The plane in crystals of the monoclinic system which is parallel to the vertical and the inclined lateral (clinidiagonal) axes.
The Monoclinic system, having one of the intersections oblique, as in the oblique rhombic prism.
It crystallizes in the monoclinic system and possesses a perfect cleavage parallel to the basal plane; this cleavage is obliquely placed with respect to the prism faces of the crystal, hence the name clinoclase or clinoclasite, from Gr.
It forms monoclinic crystals which are very soluble in water.
H2O, is obtained in dark-red monoclinic tables by the slow evaporation of a solution of the metal, its hydroxide or carbonate, in nitric acid.
It crystallizes in the monoclinic system, and separates from its aqueous solution as Ba(BrO3)2 · H2O.
The crystals belong to the monoclinic system and are usually prismatic or blade-shaped in habit.
It crystallizes in monoclinic prisms of composition Ba(IO3)2 · H2O, and is only very sparingly soluble in cold water.
In the monoclinic or monosymmetric felspars these, being parallel to the basal pinacoid and clinopinacoid, necessarily make an angle of 90 deg.
Although the crystals of all felspars present a general resemblance in habit, they are usually regarded as belonging to two systems, some felspars being monoclinic and others anorthic.
Calcium metasilicate, CaSiO3, 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.
By evaporating in vacuo the solution obtained by dissolving iron in hydrochloric acid, there results bluish, monocliniccrystals of FeCl2.
H2O in tablets belonging to the monoclinic system.
Actinolite is an important member of the monoclinic series, forming radiating groups of acicular crystals of a bright green or greyish-green colour.
In its crystallographic characters it is close to ordinary pyroxene (augite and diopside), being monoclinic and having nearly the same angle between the prismatic cleavages.
It is now applied to the dark-coloured aluminous members of the monoclinic amphiboles, occupying in this group the same position that augite occupies in the pyroxene group.
Optically biaxial crystals in which only one of the three principal optical directions coincides with a crystallographic axis--corresponding with the monoclinic system.
In monoclinic crystals only one vibration-direction has a fixed position within the crystal, being parallel to the ortho-axis (i.
The character of the dispersion of the bisectrices and optic axes is still more complex than in monoclinic crystals, and the interference figures are devoid of symmetry.
Vauquelinite forms brown or green monoclinic crystals, and was named after L.
H2O) and many others; amongst artificial products are monoclinic sulphur, barium chloride (BaCl2.
The monoclinic form prevails in the groundmass in most cases.
In this last case the deposit is formed of mineral fragments (oligoclase, rhombic and monoclinic pyroxene, &c.
It displays a few small phenocrysts of medium andesine and of rhombic and monoclinic pyroxene; and is referred to the prismatic sub-order (5) described on page 289, characterised by prismatic pyroxene in the groundmass.
They are to some degree altered, and are characterised by their abundant phenocrysts of plagioclase and of rhombic and monoclinic pyroxene, the groundmass being relatively scanty.
The pyroxene phenocrysts are mostly rhombic; but intergrowths with the monoclinic form occur.
This is an andesite in which rhombic and monoclinic pyroxene are associated both in the phenocrysts and in the groundmass where the pyroxene is prismatic and not granular.
The pyroxene phenocrysts usually are represented by separate crystals of the monoclinic as well as the rhombic type, and the two forms are often associated in the same crystal.
They may be associated or may occur as separate crystals, the rhombic prevailing in the less basic and the monoclinic in the more basic rocks.
The monoclinic form is a brownish yellow augite with large extinctions and often twinned.
Usually some iron is present replacing magnesium, and when this predominates there is a passage to hedenbergite, CaFe(SiO3)2, a closely allied variety of monoclinic pyroxene.
It is a calcium-magnesium metasilicate, CaMg(SiO3)2, and crystallizes in the monoclinic system.
At ordinary temperatures it crystallizes from aqueous solutions in large colourlessmonoclinic prisms, which effloresce in dry air, and at 35 deg.
CaSO4, which assumes forms belonging to the monoclinic system and occurs in Spain and Austria.
A name given to the two planes in the monoclinic system which are parallel to the vertical and orthodiagonal axes.
Breaking in directions at right angles to each other; -- said of the monoclinic feldspars.
Common or potash feldspar crystallizing in themonoclinic system and having two cleavages at right angles to each other.
The diagonal or lateral axis in a monoclinic crystal which is at right angles with the vertical axis.
COC6H5 \CH / Anthracene crystallizes in colourless monoclinic tables which show a fine blue fluorescence.
The above may be illustrated by considering the equilibrium between rhombic and monoclinic sulphur.
The overheating curve of rhombic sulphur extends along the curve AC, where C is the melting-point of monoclinic sulphur.
The line BC, representing the equilibrium between monoclinic and liquid sulphur, is thermodynamically calculable; the point B is found to correspond to 131 deg.
The former, which is deposited from solutions, is transformed into monoclinic sulphur at about 96 deg.
A common mineral occurring in monoclinic crystals, with a prismatic angle of nearly 90°, and also in massive forms which are often laminated.
The garden of cyanogen flowers and the border of ammonia crystals and the walkway of monoclinic sulphur, and the reflection pool of liquid hydrogen he'd installed in an odd half hour.
She enlarged the garden Rhadampsicus had made, adding borders of crystallized ammonia and a sort of walkway with a hedge of monoclinic sulphur which glittered beautifully in the starlight.
At any point outside this area, monoclinic sulphur can exist only in a metastable condition.
Beyond this point monoclinic sulphur ceases to exist in a stable condition.
The transition curve of rhombic and monoclinic sulphur, as we have seen, also slopes to the right, and more so than the fusion curve of monoclinic sulphur.
From the relative positions of the metastable melting point of rhombic sulphur and the stable melting point of monoclinic sulphur at 120deg, we see that, of the two forms, the metastable form has the lower melting point.
In the case of the transition point of rhombic into monoclinic sulphur, increase of pressure by 1 atm.
Of these only monoclinic and rhombic sulphur exhibit the relationship of enantiotropy, i.
In contrast with that of ice, the fusion point of monoclinic sulphur is raised by increase of pressure, and the fusion curve, therefore, slopes to the right.
This temperature is, therefore, the point of equilibrium between monoclinic sulphur and liquid sulphur under atmospheric pressure.
Heat is set free when monoclinic sulphur changes into rhombic.
The two varieties differ also in density and in melting point, the monoclinic sulphur melting at 120°.
Above this temperature the rhombic changes into monoclinic; at lower temperatures the monoclinic changes into rhombic.
Monoclinic and rhombic sulphur remain unchanged in contact with each other at 96°.
Sulphur occurs in two crystalline forms, namely, rhombic sulphur and monoclinic sulphur.
It crystallizes in large monoclinic prisms which melt at 97.
It forms colourless, monoclinic prisms, which turn brown on exposure to air.
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