pentadecahedral

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adjective

In the form of a pentadecahedron.

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Meanings

adjectivepentadecahedral (not comparable)
  1. not comparableIn the form of a pentadecahedron.

    […]the La atom of which displays a pentadecahedral (PD) geometry (Figure 17);

    2009 July 17, Antonio Ruiz-Martínez, Santiago Alvarez, “Stereochemistry of Compounds with Coordination Number Ten”, in Chemistry: A European Journal, volume 15, number 30, pages 7470–7480
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    The stabilizing influence of the isoamyl chain on a Pd cavity, due to the correspondence between the shape and size of the chain and the configuration of the pentadecahedral water shell, is geometrically manifested in the presence of a large number of C…O distances of order 3.3-4.0 Å (Table III).[…]The pentadecahedral and decahedral cavities have the shapes of prolate spheroids with maximum diameters of 6.1-7.0 Å (Ref. 4) and minimum diameters of 3.7-4.3 Å (calculated by the present authors).

    1982, Soviet Physics: Crystallography, page 155

    […]H, and E are decahedral (4258), dodecahedral (512), tetradecahedral (51262), pentadecahedral (51263),[…]

    1995 November, Yu. A. Dyadin, I. V. Bondaryuk, L. S. Aladko, “Stoichiometry of clathrates”, in Journal of Structural Chemistry, volume 36, pages 995–1045

    HREM images calculated for a pentadecahedral structure as the model shown in the left portion of the figure.

    2004, Hari Singh Nalwa, editor, Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, volumes 2 (CI–E), Stevenson Ranch, Calif.: American Scientific Publishers, →ISBN, page 276

    Measurement of ¹¹B NMR spectra in particular have indicated seven distinct boron vertexes, although the resulting cage degradation by removal of two BH vertexes was confirmed only following X-ray crystallographic analysis, which revealed the pentadecahedral isonido-7,8,9-ReC₂B₇ architecture.

    2006 August 8, Steven W. Buckner, Matthew J. Fischer, Paul A. Jelliss, Rensheng Luo, Shelley D. Minteer, Nigam P. Rath, Aleksander Siemiarczuk, “Dual Fluorescence from an Isonido Reᴵᴵᴵ Rhenacarborane Phosphine Complex, [7,10-μ-H-7-CO-7,7-(PPh₃)₂-isonido-7,8,9-ReC₂B₇H₉]”, in Inorganic Chemistry, volume 45, number 18, pages 7339–7347

    […]T, tetradecahedral (51262), and P, pentadecahedral (51263) water polyhedra.

    2013 February 5, Irina S. Terekhova, Andrey Yu. Manakov, Vladislav Yu. Komarov, Galina V. Villevald, Alexander A. Burdin, Tamara D. Karpova, Eugeny Ya. Aladko, “Physicochemical and Structural Studies of Clathrate Hydrates of Tetrabutylammonium Polyacrylates”, in The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, volume 117, number 9, pages 2796–2806

    Synonyms: pentakaidecahedral

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveIn the form of a pentadecahedron.

Origin

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