cleavage

tendency of crystalline materials to split along definite crystallographic structural planes
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cleavage

Summary

cleavage ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (228 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • cleavage's subclass of is recorded as quality[2].
  • cleavage's subclass of is recorded as fracture[3].
  • cleavage's Commons category is recorded as Cleavage (crystal)[4].
  • cleavage's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/06434w[5].
  • cleavage's OmegaWiki Defined Meaning is recorded as 1457289[6].
  • cleavage's facet of is recorded as crystallography[7].
  • cleavage's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[8].
  • cleavage's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/cleavage-mineralogy[9].
  • cleavage's main Wikidata property is recorded as P693[10].
  • cleavage's different from is recorded as cleavage[11].
  • cleavage's NALT ID is recorded as 309256[12].
  • cleavage's Treccani ID is recorded as sfaldatura[13].
  • cleavage's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as basal-cleavage[14].
  • cleavage's Open Library subject ID is recorded as cleavage[15].
  • cleavage's Treccani's Enciclopedia Italiana ID is recorded as sfaldatura[16].
  • cleavage's Treccani Vocabulary ID is recorded as sfaldatura[17].
  • cleavage's model item is recorded as mineral cleavage[18].
  • cleavage's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 69641334[19].
  • cleavage's De Agostini ID is recorded as sfaldatùra[20].
  • cleavage's Encyclopedia of China is recorded as 147648[21].
  • cleavage's Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID is recorded as spainost-ef4b0f[22].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for cleavage include orthoclase[23], a mineral species[24]; euclase[25], a mineral species[26]; periclase[27], a mineral species[28]; clinoclase[29], a mineral species[30]; and alloclasite[31], a mineral species[32].

Why It Matters

cleavage ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (228 views/month).[1] cleavage has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[33] cleavage is known by 15 alternative names across languages and contexts.[34]

Entities named for cleavage include orthoclase[23], a mineral species[24]; euclase[25], a mineral species[26]; periclase[27], a mineral species[28]; clinoclase[29], a mineral species[30]; and alloclasite[31], a mineral species[32].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
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  19. [20] . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [23] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [25] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [27] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [29] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [31] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [24] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [26] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [33] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [34] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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