crystallographic
adjective
crys·tal·lo·graph·ic
ˌkri-stə-lə-ˈgra-fik 
: of or relating to crystals or crystallography
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And that’s because of what’s known as the crystallographic restriction, which says that periodic tilings and structures can have rotational symmetries that are either twofold, threefold, fourfold or sixfold — and that’s it.
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Quanta Magazine, 3 July 2024
Considered for a long time impossible by classic crystallographic rules, quasicrystals, first discovered in the 1980s, have a distinct chemical formula like other minerals, but the atomic pattern is not periodic.
—David Bressan, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
There are six crystallographic polymorphs of cocoa butter molecules, that is, there are six ways the molecules can organize themselves.
—Elsbeth Sites, Discover Magazine, 6 Oct. 2015
The image, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, was made from hundreds of crystallographic x-rays, each providing a multi-layered picture of the capsid’s structure.
—Brandon Keim, WIRED, 17 Feb. 2009
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Quanta Magazine, 3 July 2024
Considered for a long time impossible by classic crystallographic rules, quasicrystals, first discovered in the 1980s, have a distinct chemical formula like other minerals, but the atomic pattern is not periodic.
—David Bressan, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
There are six crystallographic polymorphs of cocoa butter molecules, that is, there are six ways the molecules can organize themselves.
—Elsbeth Sites, Discover Magazine, 6 Oct. 2015
The image, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, was made from hundreds of crystallographic x-rays, each providing a multi-layered picture of the capsid’s structure.
—Brandon Keim, WIRED, 17 Feb. 2009
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“Crystallographic.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crystallographic. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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