TRICLINIC SYSTEM

one of the structural categories to which crystalline solids can be assigned. Crystals in this system are referred to three axes of unequal lengths that are inclined at angles less than 90 to one another. If the atoms or atom groups in the solid are represented by points and the points are connected, the resulting lattice will consist of an orderly stacking of blocks, or unit cells. The triclinic unit cell has the least-symmetrical shape of all unit cells. Potassium dichromate, albite, anorthite, kyanite, and microcline crystallize in the triclinic system.