dodecahedron
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dodecahedrons,
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dodecahedra
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dodecahedrons
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"What we do know is the Norton Disney dodecahedron was found on the top of a hill in a former large pit of some kind. It seems it was deliberately placed there."
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2024
Granted, the shape is dramatically different than the one that existed when minor-league ball was shuttered last summer — like a square becoming a dodecahedron.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 2, 2020
This involves two different polyhedra with the same volume: an irregular dodecahedron with pentagonal faces, possessing tetrahedral symmetry, and a tetrakaidecahedron, which has two hexagonal and 12 pentagonal faces possessing antiprismatic symmetry.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2015
We can’t tile the plane with them, but we can stick a bunch of them together and close them up into a very nice surface, the dodecahedron.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 17, 2013
For some reason, knowledge of a solid called the dodecahedron having twelve pentagons as sides seemed to them dangerous.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
So far, there is not much to do in the eleVR world, apart from exploring tilings made of geometric shapes such as pentagons and dodecahedra.
From Nature ● Mar. 20, 2017
Many other dodecahedra exist as crystal forms, for which see Crystallography.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" by Various
The garnet sometimes forms good dodecahedra, but may occur as rounded grains, and encloses quartz, rutile, kyanite, and other minerals very frequently.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" by Various
The object is one of only 33 dodecahedrons found in Britain, and the first to have been discovered in the Midlands.
From BBC ● May 4, 2024
The object is one of only 33 dodecahedrons ever found in Britain, and the first to have been discovered in the Midlands.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2024
He built each piece originally in tiny paper tetrahedrons, octahedrons or dodecahedrons.
From Time Magazine Archive
Iron pyrites is commonly of a bright brass-yellow color, and is found crystallized in cubes, dodecahedrons and many other forms.
From Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume VIII, No 25: May 21, 1887 by James Elverson
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