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pentakaidecahedral en · ADJ

Etymology

From penta- (“five”) + -kai- (“and”) + deca- (“ten”) + -hedral.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) In the form of a pentakaidecahedron.
    • Class II / Dodecahedra sharing faces in infinite sheets, forming tetrakaidecahedral and pentakaidecahedral voids. c. 1962, DECHEMA Monographien, page 855, column 2:
    • The result is in a good agreement with the fact that pentakaidecahedral cavity is rarely seen in the gas hydrates. c. 1981, Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, page 2260:
    • Other clathrates are the Br₂ hydrate with a pentakaidecahedral cage of water molecules or the tert-butylamine hydrate with a heptakaidecahedron cage of water molecules. 1976, Peter Schuster, Georg Zundel, Camille Sandorfy, The Hydrogen Bond: Recent Developments in Theory and Experiments, volumes III (Dynamics, Thermodynamics and Special Systems), North-Holland Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 1416:

Synonyms

pentadecahedral