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1813, Spinell, entry in John Mason Good, Olinthus Gregory, Newton Bosworth (editors), Pantologia: A New Cyclopaedia, Volume XI: SPA — TZE, unnumbered page,
This, which may be regarded as a brown garnet or schoerl in truncated dodecahedrons of Rome de Lisle, was originally found in the island of Ceylon, among tourmalines and other crystalline substances, with which it was confounded.
1983, Electron Microscopy Society of America, Proceedings: 41st Annual Meeting, page 232:
The morphologies commonly observed in bcc materials include truncated dodecahedrons with {110} faces and {100} truncations and cubes with {100} faces.
1990, David S. Gelles, “Neutron Irradiation Damage in Ferritic Fe-Cr Alloys”, in Nicholas H. Packan, R. E. Stoller, A. S. Kumar, editors, Effects of Radiation on Materials: 14th International Symposium, Volume 1, page 90:
Void shapes were found to be generally truncated dodecahedra with {011} faces and {001} truncations.
1996, T. A. Fournelle, K. W. Weston, Generalizations of Steinberg Groups, World Scientific Publishing, Series in Algebra, Volume 4, page 176,
The edges of the linkages lie on the edges of a truncated dodecahedron. Note that the group of orientation preserving symmetries of a truncated dodecahedron is precisely A5.
Translations
polyhedron with 12 decagonal faces, 20 triangular faces and 90 edges
