pentakaidecahedral

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πέντε (pénte, “five”) + καί (kaí, “and”) + δέκᾰ (déka, “ten”) + -hedral.

Adjective

pentakaidecahedral (not comparable)

1. In the form of a pentakaidecahedron.
   • c. 1962, DECHEMA Monographien, page 855, column 2:

     Class II / Dodecahedra sharing faces in infinite sheets, forming tetrakaidecahedral and pentakaidecahedral voids.

   • 1976, Peter Schuster, Georg Zundel, Camille Sandorfy, The Hydrogen Bond: Recent Developments in Theory and Experiments, volumes III (Dynamics, Thermodynamics and Special Systems), North-Holland Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 1416:

     Other clathrates are the Br₂ hydrate with a pentakaidecahedral cage of water molecules or the tert-butylamine hydrate with a heptakaidecahedron cage of water molecules.

   • c. 1981, Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, page 2260:

     The result is in a good agreement with the fact that pentakaidecahedral cavity is rarely seen in the gas hydrates.

Synonyms

• pentadecahedral