crystals and cleavage

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Figure 1.4. Fluorite, showing very good (almost perfect) four-directional octahedral cleavage (photos by E.L. Crisp).

     In some minerals the chemical bonding is equally strong in all directions.  Such minerals will not show cleavage when broken,

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