"Triclinic" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... arranged according to their system of crystallisation are MONOCLINIC, having one axis obliquely inclined; or TRICLINIC, having the three axes all obliquely inclined to each other. If arranged with reference to their cleavage they are ORTHOCLASTIC, the fracture taking place always at a right angle; or PLAGIOCLASTIC, in which the cleavages are oblique to one another. Orthoclase is orthoclastic and monoclinic; all ...
— The Student's Elements of Geology • Sir Charles Lyell |
