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Definition of Rhombohedrons
1. rhombohedron [n] - See also: rhombohedron
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rhombohedrons
Literary usage of Rhombohedrons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A System of Mineralogy: Including an Extended Treatise on Crystallography by James Dwight Dana (1837)
"These rhombohedrons will differ in the lengths of their vertical axes, as these
planes vary their inclination. Their nearer approach to parallelism to the ..."
2. Handbook of Organic Chemistry: For the Use of Students by William Gregory, J. Milton Sanders (1857)
"... generally having two of their faces so little developed, that they appear like
acute rhombohedrons. In dry air, they very soon give off a portion of ..."
3. A System of Mineralogy, Comprising the Most Recent Discoveries: Comprising by James Dwight Dana (1850)
"Color usually white ; also various pale shades of rhombohedrons of different
angles occur in nature. In that resembling figure 122, the angle is 78° 51'. ..."
4. An Elementary Treatise on Crystallography by Victor Regnault (1848)
"The rhombohedrons have six faces, twelve edges, and eight angles. The faces are
rhombs; the edges are of two kinds, six terminal edges X, and six lateral ..."
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