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The symmetry of crystals

Often we don't realize it, but we continuously live with symmetry...

Symmetry is the consistency, the repetition of something in space and/or in time, as is shown in the examples below: a wall drawing, the petals of flowers, the two sides of a butterfly, the succession of night and day, a piece of music, etc.

 
A wall drawing with translational repetition
 
Flower wit a rotation axis of order 8
Flower wit a rotation axis of order 3
Mirror symmetry in a butterfly


To continue reading click on the link below:

http://www.xtal.iqfr.csic.es/Cristalografia/parte_03-en.html

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