tetrahedrons in English
noun
1
a solid having four plane triangular faces; a triangular pyramid.
In particular he identified the five elements, fire, earth, air, water and celestial matter with the five regular solids, the tetrahedron , cube, octahedron, icosahedron and the dodecahedron.
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1. Carbon atoms form pyramids, called tetrahedrons, making the structure extremely rigid and making diamond the hardest naturally occurring substance known.
2. The essential characteristic of the Amphibole structure is a double chain of corner-linked silicon-oxygen tetrahedrons that extend indefinitely parallel to the c crystallographic axis, the direction of elongation (Figure 2—>)