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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The property of crystallizing in four independent forms. This is characteristic of magnesium metasilicate (MgSiO3), which may exist as a monoclinic pyrogene, as enstatite, as kupfferite, and as a monoclinic amphibole.

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