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Pyritohedral
Pyritohedral Pyr`i*to*he"dral, a. [See Pyritohedron.] (Crystallog.) Like pyrites in hemihedral form.

Meaning of Pyritohedra from wikipedia

- regular dodecahedron. See section Geometric freedom for other cases. Two pyritohedra with swapped nonzero coordinates are in dual positions to each other...
- also form shapes almost the same as a regular dodecahedron, known as pyritohedra, and this suggests an explanation for the artificial geometrical models...
- but still sufficiently symmetrical to be face-transitive. Similarly, pyritohedra and tetartoids are less symmetrical but still face-transitive dodecahedra:...
- the dyakis dodecahedron, including tetrahedra, octahedra, cubes and pyritohedra. Though the cube and octahedron are in the cubic crystal system, the...
- ratio (sometimes written φ). The dual compound has two dodecahedra as pyritohedra in dual positions: Compound of two snub cubes Compound of two snub dodecahedra...
- sperrylite, including four different trapezohedra, a trisoctahedron, five pyritohedra, and four diploids. Crystals to 2.5 cm have been reported. Sperrylite...
- disphenoidal tetrahedra, vertex figures of this honeycomb are their dualspyritohedra, and tetragonal disphenoids. Cells can be seen as the cells of the tetragonal...
- [3+,4,3], as an alternation of a truncated 24-cell, it contains 24 pyritohedra (an icosahedron with Th symmetry), 24 regular tetrahedra, and 96 triangular...