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Figure 3: (A) Schematic projection of the monoclinic pyroxene structure perpendicular to the c axis. (B) Control of cleavage angles by the I beams in the pyroxene structure.

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clinopyroxene

mineral

Also known as: monoclinic pyroxene

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crystal structure of pyroxenes

In pyroxene: Crystal structure
…and monoclinic pyroxenes are called clinopyroxenes. The essential feature of all pyroxene structures is the linkage of the silicon-oxygen (SiO₄) tetrahedrons by sharing two of the four corners to form continuous chains. The chains, which extend indefinitely parallel to the ccrystallographic axis, have the composition of (SiO₃)_n(Figure 1). A repeat…
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