Crystallography · Plate V Lithos

Monoclinic symmetry governs thirty-eight percent of known minerals

Distribution of 5,800 confirmed mineral species across the six crystallographic systems

known mineral species 0 500 1,000 1,500 2,000 464 464 696 870 1,102 2,204 Isometric Tetragonal Hexagonal Triclinic Orthorhombic Monoclinic 8% 8% 12% 15% 19% 38%
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