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Rhombohedral   Listen
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Rhombohedral  adj.  (Geom. & Crystallog.) Related to the rhombohedron; presenting the form of a rhombohedron, or a form derivable from a rhombohedron; relating to a system of forms including the rhombohedron and scalenohedron.
Rhombohedral iron ore (Min.) See Hematite.
Rhombohedral system (Crystallog.), a division of the hexagonal system embracing the rhombohedron, scalenohedron, etc.





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... terms, very hard to articulate, and which would be most trying to a poet's measures. I don't wish to say a word against so respectable a science, far be that from me. True, in the august presence of rhombohedral crystals, retinasphaltic resins, gehlenites, Fassaites, molybdenites, tungstates of manganese, and titanite of zirconium, why, the most facile of tongues may make ...
— A Journey to the Interior of the Earth • Jules Verne


Words linked to "Rhombohedral" :   symmetrical, rhombohedron, symmetric, trigonal


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