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Definition of Pinacoids
1. pinacoid [n] - See also: pinacoid
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pinacoids
Literary usage of Pinacoids
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The other pinacoids arc all perpendicular to the plane of symmetry (and parallel
to the ortho-axis); the one parallel to the vertical axis is called the ..."
2. Introduction to the Study of Minerals: A Combined Textbook and Pocket Manual by Austin Flint Rogers (1912)
"... are usually taken parallel to the intersection edges of the three most prominent
faces. pinacoids 2 faces {hkl), {hkl), {hEl}, {EB) (Tetarto-pyramids) ..."
3. A Text-book of Mineralogy: With an Extended Treatise on Crystallography and by Edward Salisbury Dana, William Ebenezer Ford (1922)
"The pinacoids are the ... Clmo- and Basal pinacoids 336 Prism and Basal Pinacoid
The diametral prism, formed by these three pinacoids, taken together, Fig. ..."
4. A Text-book of Mineralogy: With an Extended Treatise on Crystallography and by Edward Salisbury Dana (1922)
"The pinacoids are the ... Clino- and Basal pinacoids lui '7 101 Prism and Basal
Pinacoid ... formed by these three pinacoids, taken together, Fig. ..."
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