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This is the hexad axis or hexagonal axis, for which the angle of rotation is 60, or one-sixth of 360.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 11TH EDITION, VOLUME 7, SLICE 7VARIOUSPerpendicular to the hexad axis are six dyad axes of two kinds and each perpendicular to a vertical plane of symmetry.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 11TH EDITION, VOLUME 7, SLICE 7VARIOUSIn crystals of this division of the hexagonal system the principal axis is a hexad axis of symmetry.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 11TH EDITION, VOLUME 7, SLICE 7VARIOUSHere there is a plane of symmetry perpendicular to the hexad axis; there is also a centre of symmetry.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 11TH EDITION, VOLUME 7, SLICE 7VARIOUSThe hexad axis is uniterminal and all the forms are open forms.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 11TH EDITION, VOLUME 7, SLICE 7VARIOUSNo other element is here associated with the hexad axis, which is uniterminal.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 11TH EDITION, VOLUME 7, SLICE 7VARIOUSSix planes of symmetry of two kinds intersect in the hexad axis.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 11TH EDITION, VOLUME 7, SLICE 7VARIOUSSix dyad axes of two kinds are perpendicular to the hexad axis.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 11TH EDITION, VOLUME 7, SLICE 7VARIOUSThere can be only one hexad axis of symmetry in any crystal (see figs. 77-80).
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 11TH EDITION, VOLUME 7, SLICE 7VARIOUSSYNONYM OF THE DAY
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