Equant

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An equant mineral habit is having roughly the same diameter in every direction. Garnet is an example of a mineral exhibiting a equant habit. An equivalent term is equidimensional[1].

Sources

  1. ↑ Chesterman, Charles W. The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Rocks and Minerals, Alfred A. Knopf: New York (1987)