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Definition of Dodecahedrons
1. dodecahedron [n] - See also: dodecahedron
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dodecahedrons
Literary usage of Dodecahedrons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Treatise on Mineralogy: Or, The Natural History of the Mineral Kingdom by Friedrich Mohs (1825)
"The Pentagonal-dodecahedrons are contained under equal and similar pentagons. 1.
... All the solid angles of these Pentagonal-dodecahedrons, arc bounded by ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"S. The deltoid dodecahedrons (6g. ... (1) The pentagonal dodecahedrons (fig.
51), bounded by twelve symmetrical pentagons, vary in general aspect between ..."
3. Descriptive Mineralogy by William Shirley Bayley (1917)
"Inter- penetration Twin of Two dodecahedrons Elongated in the Direction of an
Octahedral Axis ... Interpenetration twins of two dodecahedrons are common, ..."
4. An Elementary Treatise on Crystallography by Victor Regnault (1848)
"In making m = 0 in these formulae, the dodecahedrons are reduced to a single face
parallel and similar to the base. We call this the right terminal face. ..."
5. Elements of Chemistry: For the Use of Colleges, Academies, and Schools by Victor Regnault (1853)
"The faces of the corresponding inverse, or dodecahedrons of the second class ...
Besides the two dodecahedrons of which we have just spoken, there may be an ..."
6. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1852)
"From the Ural; dodecahedrons; sp. gr. 18'H; increased by fusion to 18-399. ...
From the Ural ; "dodecahedrons ; sp. gr. 17'74; after fusion, 18-35. ..."
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