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Three figures in round brackets naming a plane.
Also known as: hkl notation, Plane index notation
The notation naming a crystallographic plane by three figures in round brackets, the reciprocals of its intercepts on the crystal axes.
Names a crystallographic plane by the reciprocals of its intercepts on the three crystal axes.
Contexts: Laboratory
Uses reciprocals so that a plane parallel to an axis, which meets it at infinity, gets the index zero rather than an infinite one.
Contexts: Laboratory
Three figures written side by side inside round brackets with no separating commas, such as a one, a zero and a zero.