(crystallography) A parallelepiped whose edges are defined by the primitive translations of a crystal lattice; it is a unit cell of minimum volume.
primitive cell
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 | ooblast |
| sarcoblast |
| crystal base (crystallography) |
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- ooblast
- sarcoblast
- crystal base (crystallography)
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- gonocyte
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- nucleus (Science)
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- Supercell (crystal)
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