In this paper the relationship between the crystal forms and the growth mechanism of quartz and tinstone under the hydrothermal solution conditions has been studied.
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What you can do is imagine a sequence of different polyhedra that successively approximate a sphere, in the sense that their faces hug tighter and tighter around the genuine surface of the sphere.