Meanings
- not comparableIn the form of a pentakaidecahedron.
Class II / Dodecahedra sharing faces in infinite sheets, forming tetrakaidecahedral and pentakaidecahedral voids.
c. 1962, DECHEMA Monographien, page 855, column 22 more examples
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.
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 1416The result is in a good agreement with the fact that pentakaidecahedral cavity is rarely seen in the gas hydrates.
c. 1981, Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, page 2260Synonyms: pentadecahedral
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveIn the form of a pentakaidecahedron.
Origin
From penta- (“five”) + -kai- (“and”) + deca- (“ten”) + -hedral.
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