Point group symmetry of truncated cube, part 2
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Channel: bhadeshia123 · 2012 · Education
Cutting two corners of the cube (each parallel to a {111} plane in the manner illustrated) reduces the symmetry to 2mm (orthorhombic). You should be able to see a diad axis, lying at the intersection of two mirror planes.
http://www.phase-trans.msm.cam.ac.uk/2007/C6/EA1_new.pdf
H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia
