TETARTOHEDRAL CLASS

(Tetrahedral pentagonal dodecahedral).

Here, in addition to four polar triad axes, the only other elements of

symmetry are three dyad axes, which coincide with the crystallographic

axes. Six of the simple forms, the cube, tetrahedron, rhombic

dodecahedron, deltoid dodecahedron, triakis-tetrahedron and pentagonal

dodecahedron, are geometrically the same in this class as in either

the tetrahedral or pyritohedral classes. The general form is the

Tetrahedral pentagonal dodecahedron (fig. 41). This is bounded by

twelve irregular pentagons, and is a tetartohedral or quarter-faced

form of the hexakis-octahedron. Four such forms may be derived, the

indices of which are {hkl}, {khl}, {h'kl} and {k'hl}; the first pair

are enantiomorphous with respect to one another, and so are the last

pair. Barium nitrate, lead nitrate, sodium chlorate and sodium bromate

crystallize in this class, as also do the minerals ullmannite (NiSbS)

and langbeinite (K2Mg2(SO4)3).

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