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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