Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
TRISOCTAHEDRON
Etymology
Noun
trisoctahedron (plural trisoctahedrons or trisoctahedra)
(crystallography) A solid of the isometric system bounded by 24 equal faces, three corresponding to each face of an octahedron.
Source: Wiktionary
Tris*oc`ta*he"dron, n. Etym: [Gr. octahedron.] (Crystallog.)
Definition: A solid of the isometric system bounded by twenty-four equal faces, three corresponding to each face of an octahedron. Tetragonal trisoctahedron, a trisoctahedron each face of which is a quadrilateral; called also trapezohedron and icositetrahedron.
– Trigonal trisoctahedron, a trisoctahedron each face of which is an isosceles triangle.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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