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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In crystallography, a twelve-sided form under the rhombohedral division of the hexagonal system, in which the faces are scalene triangles. It is regarded as a hemihedral form of the double twelve-sided pyramid. See
hemihedral .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Crystallog.) A pyramidal form under the rhombohedral system, inclosed by twelve faces, each a scalene triangle.
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- noun A
rhombohedral polyhedron having twelve sides, each in the form of ascalene triangle
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The crystal of prismatic habit shown in fig. 4 is a combination of the prism m {2-1-1} and the rhombohedron e {110}; fig. 5 is a combination of the scalenohedron v {20-1} and the rhombohedron
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Fig. 7 shows a prismatic crystal (like fig. 4) twinned in this manner, and fig. 8 represents a twinned scalenohedron v
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