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Meaning of pinacoid | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

The face of a crystal parallel to two of the axes.

Equivalents

Suomi pinakoidi

Examples

“The crystallographic symmetry is initially broken toward dilation symmetry by the splitting of the basal pinacoid or the pseudohexagonal bipyramidal faces of the growing crystal core.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

pinacol pinacol rearrangement pinacolate pinacolato pinacolatoboron pinacolborane

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