Pentagonal


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Pentagonal

A plane figure with five equal sides and five equal angles, commonly found in nature.
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Heritage chiefs said so much robbing has taken place at the site over the last 300 years that only the central pentagonal courtyard still survives above ground.
Lost defences found at castle
An earlier design of terrarium was a pentagonal five compartment unit which sat on the blue faced control box unit (see photograph on next page) which held the water container along with the pump unit and the electronics, the pentagonal unit along with the arboreal unit has now be dismantled.
Meet the member IED: many of our members are busy designing and manufacturing in their spare time - beavering away in home workshops. John Greaves IEng MIED has designed two very different and innovative products, which he is already putting to good use
The key to the unique behaviour of cyclopentadienyl lies in its pentagonal (five-fold) symmetry, which prevents it latching onto any one site within the triangular (three-fold) symmetry of the copper surface through directional covalent bonds, leaving it free to move easily from site to site," Dr Marco Sacchi, of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge, who carried out the calculations that helped explain the startling new experimental results, said.
Pentagonal tiles pave way for ultra-small organic electronic devices
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Taxonomy of Korean Lesteva with a description of a new species (coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Omaliinae)
Vauban's amazing pentagonal designs are best seen from the air, but if you can't find a helicopter, I suggest following the narrow lanes up to the hill-top church and climbing to the roof of the bell tower.
My ferry amour; PAUL BROWES takes his French wife on holiday to France. Again
Nevertheless, they are assigned to the Labenopimplinae on the basis of their characteristically shaped areolet: Labenopimpla has the areolet pentagonal with a relatively long 4M and subvertical r-m, and Rugopimpla has a quadrangular areolet, but all Palaeoichneumoninae have the areolet pentagonal with oblique r-m.
Two new labenopimpline ichneumonids (hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) from the upper cretaceous of southern Africa
He added that Moussa was very clear when he proposed his idea in the pentagonal summit he disclosed that Israel was not concerned with the body.
No Israel in proposed Arab body
The five countries comprise a pentagonal committee assigned by the previous Arab summit to look into an initiative proposed by Yemen to replace the current pan-Arab body with an Arab union.
Five Arab leaders meet to discuss closer relations
The outcomes of the meeting of the pentagonal committee on advancing the Arab common work held on Monday in Libya and the latest developments in the region topped by the situations in Palestine, Iraq, Somalia and the African Horn were discussed as well.
Saleh and Mubarak hold Cairo talks
Classic perforated polyethylene film in different shapes (square, circular, pentagonal, elliptical etc .
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As late as 2003, workers digging a foundation near the Occupation Museum found a pentagonal system of limestone-lined tunnels dating to the end of the 17th century.
Going underground
The stunning pop erty is choc-full of architectural features, including double height ceilings, stunning skylights and unusual pentagonal rooms.
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