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In its pure crystallized state it constitutes the diamond, the hardest of known substances, occuring in monometric crystals like the octahedron, etc.

From The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section C by Project Gutenberg

In the first, the cubic—called also the isometric, monometric, or regular—there are, as we have seen, three axes, all at right angles, all of them being equal.

From The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones by Mastin, John