Dodecahedra Sentence Examples

Lead monoxide is dimorphous, occurring as cubical dodecahedra and as rhombic octahedra.

It crystallizes in the cubical system, often in beautiful octahedra and rhombic dodecahedra.

It crystallizes in the cubic system, usually in cubes, pentagonal dodecahedra or octahedra, often of great beauty and perfection.

The felspathoid minerals, sodalite, haiiyne and nosean, which crystallize in isometric dodecahedra, are very frequent components of the phonolites; their crystals are often corroded or partly dissolved and their outlines may then be very irregular.

Many other dodecahedra exist as crystal forms, for which see Crystallography.

The fracture is distinctly crystalline; large crystals, either regular dodecahedra or octahedra, may be obtained by crystallization from carbon bisulphide, sulphur chloride, &c., or by sublimation.

The "small stellated dodecahedron," the "great dodecahedron" and the "great stellated dodecahedron" are Kepler-Poinsot solids; and the "truncated" and "snub dodecahedra" are Archimedean solids (see Polyhedron).

It is also possible that a tessellated structure may arise from water dodecahedra separated by only one pentagonal box (shown below).