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pinakoid

pinakoid is the alternative form 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

Forms of pinakoid

pluralpinakoids

Questions about pinakoid

What is pinakoid the alternative form of?
Pinakoid is the alternative form of pinacoid.

Words near pinakoid in the dictionary

  1. pinakbet
  2. pinakes
  3. pinakia
  4. pinakiolite
  5. pinakion
  6. pinakoid
  7. pinakoidal
  8. pinakoids
  9. pinakone
  10. pinakones
  11. Pinal

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