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pentakaidecahedral

pentakaidecahedral adjective: in the form of a pentakaidecahedron.

Adjective

pentakaidecahedral (not comparable)

  1. In the form of a pentakaidecahedron.
    • Class II / Dodecahedra sharing faces in infinite sheets, forming tetrakaidecahedral and pentakaidecahedral voids.c. 1962, DECHEMA Monographien, page 855, column 2
    • Other clathrates are the Br₂ hydrate with a pentakaidecahedral cage of water molecules or the tert-butylamine hydrate with a heptakaidecahedron cage of water molecules.1976, Peter Schuster, Georg Zundel, Camille Sandorfy, The Hydrogen Bond: Recent Developments in Theory and Experiments, volumes III (Dynamics, Thermodynamics and Special Systems), North-Holland...
    Synonyms:
    pentadecahedral

Synonyms of pentakaidecahedral

Origin of pentakaidecahedral

From penta- (“five”) + -kai- (“and”) + deca- (“ten”) + -hedral.

Questions about pentakaidecahedral

What does pentakaidecahedral mean?
Pentakaidecahedral means in the form of a pentakaidecahedron.
What part of speech is pentakaidecahedral?
Pentakaidecahedral is an adjective.

Words near pentakaidecahedral in the dictionary

  1. pentails
  2. pentaiodide
  3. pentaiodides
  4. pentairon
  5. pentakaidecahedra
  6. pentakaidecahedral
  7. pentakaidecahedron
  8. pentakaidecahedrons
  9. pentaketide
  10. pentaketides
  11. pentakis

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