In crystallography, the tetragonal crystal system is one of the 7 lattice point groups. Tetragonal lattices result from stretching a cubic lattice along one of its lattice vectors, so that the cube becomes a rectangular prism with a square base (a by a) and height (c, which is different from a).
There are two tetragonal Bravais lattices: the simple tetragonal (from stretching the simple-cubic lattice) and the centered tetragonal (from stretching either the face-centered or the body-centered cubic lattice).
| simple tetragonal
| body-centered
tetragonal
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The point groups that fall under this crystal system are listed below, followed by their representations in international notation and Schoenflies notation, and mineral examples.
| name
| international
| Schoenflies
| example
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| ditetragonal bipyramidal
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| D4h
| rutile
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| ditetragonal pyramidal
| 4mm
| C4v
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| tetragonal bipyramidal
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| C4h
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| tetragonal pyramidal
| 4
| C4
| wulfenite
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| ditetragonal alternating
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| D2d
| chalcopyrite
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| tetragonal trapezohedral
| 422
| D4
| phosgenite
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| tetragonal alternating
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| S4
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