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homohedral

homohedral adjective: having equal or corresponding faces.

Adjective

homohedral (not comparable)

  1. Having equal or corresponding faces.
    • The second is a hemihedral combination of which no corresponding homohedral variety has been discovered, and no hemihexakisoctahedrons have been found to correspond with the rest of the known hexakisoctahedrons, § 408.1841, John Joseph Griffin, “Principles of Crystallography”, in A System of Crystallography, with Its Application to Mineralogy, Glasgow: Richard Griffin and Company. And Thomas Tegg, London, section...
    • M. Pasteur has also carefully examined the crystalline forms of several salts of racemic acid,—particularly the neutral and acid racemates of soda and the racemate of antimony and potash—and finds them all perfectly homohedral.1851, M. L. Pasteur, “On the Characteristic Properties of the two Acids which compose Racemic Acid”, in Henry Watts, editor, The Quarterly Journal of the Chemical Society of London, volume III...

Origin of homohedral

From homo- + -hedral.

Questions about homohedral

What does homohedral mean?
Homohedral means having equal or corresponding faces.
What part of speech is homohedral?
Homohedral is an adjective.

Words near homohedral in the dictionary

  1. homographs
  2. homography
  3. homohalichondrin
  4. homohalichondrins
  5. homoharringtonine
  6. homohedral
  7. homoheptamer
  8. homoheptameric
  9. homoheptamers
  10. homohexamer
  11. homohexameric

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