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 | | Of each bipyramid one of their faces is marked with a grade of gray. |
 | | All other faces of the smaller bipyramid can be symbolized in the same way (because they are assumed to involve cut-off pieces (intercepts) of the same respective lengths as the (corresponding) ones of the unit face) except for their signs (+ or -). |
 | | The effect of all this is that the axis that was perpendicular to that mirror plane has now become polar, implying that the crystal is differently developed at the two sides of that axis, in a geometrical as well as in a physical sense. |
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