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Definition of Dodecahedra
1. dodecahedron [n] - See also: dodecahedron
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dodecahedra
Literary usage of Dodecahedra
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mineralogy: An Introduction to the Scientific Study of Minerals by Henry Alexander Miers (1902)
"Small dodecahedra in granular limestone with pyroxene. ... Beautiful honey-yellow
and green dodecahedra in cavities of a massive greenish pyroxene ..."
2. The Silver Bromide Grain of Photographic Emulsions by Adrian Peter Herman Trivelli, Samuel Edward Sheppard (1921)
"The pentagonal dodecahedra obtained by cooling the ammoniacal solution are so
important ... _ Unfortunately, the combinations of pentagonal dodecahedra and ..."
3. A Treatise on Crystallography by William James Lewis (1899)
"We take first the twinned dihedral pentagonal dodecahedra IT {210} of pyrites
... The two dodecahedra interpenetrate one another more or less regularly, ..."
4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1836)
"The triangular solid angles of four ordinate dodecahedra may meet at a point,
... If the central mass of approximate dodecahedra should be a little ..."