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Ditetragonal Pyramidal Class

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DITETRAGONAL PYRAMIDAL CLASS (Hemimorphic-hemihedral.) Here there are two pairs of vertical planes of symmetry inter secting in the tetrad axis. The pyramids { all and and the bipyramid { hkl} are all hemimorphic.

Ditetragonal Pyramidal Class

Examples are silver fluoride and penta-erythrite No examples are known amongst minerals.