XIII. On the origin of the crystalline forms of the Haytorite
XIII. On the origin of the crystalline forms of the Haytorite
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10.1080/14786442708674205
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A. Levy
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A. Levy
M R. w. PHILLIPS having been so good as to commu-nicate to me the drawings and measurements of the crystals of Haytorite he has given in the preceding paper, I first examined whether by taking a sufficient number of the observed angles as data to detei~ mine the dimensions of the simplest form which may be assumed as the primitive, the other observed incidences did agree with the results of calculation of simple decrements. Because if that was not the case (as no doubt can be entertained on the accuracy of the observations) it would follow, in the supposition of these crystals being pseudomorphic, that they had not preserved exactly the angles of the substance upon which they had been modelled. Consequently no perfect agreement could be expected between the incidences they afford, and those of any mineral; and at the same time that it would make it difficult to decide which was the substance they had replaced, a similarity of their forms, and not too wide a difference of their angles, with those of a crystallized species, would be sufficient to make it probable that they were pseudomorphic crystals of it. Inferences entirely opposite to the preceding would be drawn, if the equality between the observed and calculated angles should obtain.Now the forms, and mere inspection of the ensemble of the measurements of Haytorite prove, that we may assume for the primitive form an oblique rhombic prism, the lateral planes of which would correspond to the planes g~, and the base to the plane m (See the figures in the preceding paper); this base being inclined upon the lateral planes at an angle very Communicated by the Author. G~ little