Crossword-Solution: DODECAHEDRAL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Dodecahedral | a. | Pertaining to, or like, a dodecahedion; consisting of twelve equal sides. |
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| relating to a dodecahedron, a twelve-sided solid figure | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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The crystals are oftenest found octahedral and dodecahedral--that is, eight and twelve sided, and the diamond-cutter takes advantage of these forms in shaping the diamond.
That is, the whole mass takes on a structure similar to a honeycomb except that the cells are roughly dodecahedral in shape, instead of the hexagonal cylinders in which the bees arrange their comb cells, in which the original disperse phase constitutes the cell-walls and the original liquid, or continuous phase, represents the cell-contents.
For this reason the mineral is not always readily recognized by inspection, though the perfect dodecahedral cleavage, the adamantine lustre, and the brown streak are characters which may be relied upon.
This is called a dodecahedral plane of symmetry, being parallel to the face of the rhombic dodecahedron which truncates the edge a1a2 (compare fig.
Another similar plane of symmetry is that passing through the corners a3a´3 and the middle points of the edges a1a2 and a´1a´2, and altogether there are six dodecahedral planes of symmetry, two through each of the corners a1, a2, a3 of the octahedron.