Because of this uniformity, cubic crystals have inherent stability and symmetry that favor shapes like cubes. However, it’s ...

Other minerals like pyrite, fluorite, galena, magnetite, and spinel also form cubic crystals, each with unique properties and ...

Zinc sulphide exists with two different crystal structures, the cubic zinc blend (top diagram) and the hexagonal Wurtzite (lower diagram). In the zinc blend structure the sulphur ions form an fcc ...