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pinacoids

pinacoids is the plural of pinacoid.

Meaning of pinacoid

Noun

pinacoid (plural pinacoids)

  1. The face of a crystal parallel to two of the axes.
    • The crystallographic symmetry is initially broken toward dilation symmetry by the splitting of the basal pinacoid or the pseudohexagonal bipyramidal faces of the growing crystal core.2009 January 16, Juan Manuel Garcia-Ruiz et al., “Morphogenesis of Self-Assembled Nanocrystalline Materials of Barium Carbonate and Silica”, in Science, volume 323, number 5912

Questions about pinacoids

What is pinacoids the plural of?
Pinacoids is the plural of pinacoid.

Words near pinacoids in the dictionary

  1. pinacoderm
  2. pinacodermal
  3. pinacoderms
  4. pinacoid
  5. pinacoidal
  6. pinacoids
  7. pinacol
  8. pinacol rearrangement
  9. pinacol rearrangements
  10. pinacolate
  11. pinacolates

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