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What is an habit in mineralogy ?
Habit : definition
Habit is the external aspect, the general shape of a body and more particularly of a crystal : the common habit of
calcite
is the rhombohedron, that of
quartz
the hexagonal prism. This term is generally synonymous with "crystalline form".
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