ideal solid

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ideal solid - any one of five solids whose faces are congruent regular polygons and whose polyhedral angles are all congruent

Platonic body, Platonic solid, regular convex polyhedron, regular convex solid, regular polyhedron

polyhedron - a solid figure bounded by plane polygons or faces

regular tetrahedron - a tetrahedron with four equilateral triangular faces

cube, regular hexahedron - a hexahedron with six equal squares as faces

regular dodecahedron - a dodecahedron with twelve regular pentagons as faces

regular octahedron - an octahedron with eight equilateral triangles as faces

regular icosahedron - an icosahedron with twenty equilateral triangles as faces

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Analysis of heat transfer in this manner helps scientists to recognize that the laws of thermal radiation are strictly applicable only to the ideal solid.

Non-bonding electrons may also be present, however in an ideal solid these electrons are not involved in carrying current.

1], being an ideal solid, is also a perfect blackbody.

Thus, an ideal solid containing no heat energy is close to absolute zero as defined by the 3rd law of thermodynamics.

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That's why waste prevention (reducing and reusing) is the ideal solid waste solution,"

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Together they provide an ideal solids reduction/fluid transfer system capable of handling a wide range of applications including pumping station effluent, raw, digested and primary sludge, and scum and skimming.