deltohedron
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deltohedron
[‚del·tə′hē·drən] (crystallography)
A polyhedron which has 12 quadrilateral faces, and is the form of a crystal belonging to the cubic system and having hemihedral symmetry. Also known as deltoid dodecahedron; tetragonal tristetrahedron.
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