Crystals and cleavage
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Figure 1.4. Fluorite, showing very good (almost perfect) four-directional octahedral cleavage (photos by E.L. Crisp).
In some minerals the chemical bonding is equally strong in all directions. Such minerals will not show cleavage when broken,