dodecahedral

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dodecahedron

do·dec·a·he·dron

 (dō′dĕk-ə-hē′drən)
n. pl. do·dec·a·he·drons or do·dec·a·he·dra (-drə)
A polyhedron with 12 faces.

[Greek dōdekaedron, from neuter of Greek dōdekaedros, having twelve sides : dōdeka, twelve; see dodecagon + -edros, sided; see -hedron.]

do′dec·a·he′dral adj.
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The solvation of the molecule+water systems was carried out with the GROMACS SPC water model in a dodecahedral box with a minimum distance of 1.00 nm.
Pittman, Jr., "Structures, stabilities and electronic properties of endo- and exohedral dodecahedral silsesquioxane (T12-POSS) nanosized complexes with atomic and ionic species, "J.
Dyson Heydon's learning is dodecahedral in the Daubian sense.
The newly-discovered structure is a 12-sided, highly-symmetrical dodecahedral silica cage that has the potential to contain, transport and deliver a wide range of sensitive molecules.
In addition, he presents some new historical hypotheses concerning the origin of the Egyptian calendar and the Babylonian numerical system with base 60 (the dodecahedral hypothesis) as well as about the origin of the Mayan calendar and numeral system with base 20 (the icosahedral hypothesis).
They were carried out by means of an omnidirectional sound source--12 loudspeakers in dodecahedral configuration, a SVAN 945A Sound Level Meter and the DIRAC room acoustic software.
Wang et al., "Uniform M3PMo12O40.n[H.sub.2]O (M = NH4+, K+, Cs+) rhombic dodecahedral nanocrystals for effective antibacterial agents," Dalton Transactions, vol.
These nanoparticles present rhombic dodecahedral shapes with 50-200 nm in size.
The A site is coordinated by eight O atoms in dodecahedral geometry; the B site is coordinated by six O atoms in a distorted octahedral geometry; and the C and D sites are coordinated by four O atoms in distorted tetrahedral geometries (Figure 1), in which the size of the C site is slightly larger than that of the D site.
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