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Definition of Fiveling

Fiveling
Fiveling Five"ling, n. (Min.) A compound or twin crystal consisting of five individuals.

Meaning of Fiveling from wikipedia

- axes, and the corresponding patterns are called threelings, fourlings, fivelings, sixlings, and eightlings. Sixlings are common in aragonite. Polysynthetic...
- same they are sometimes called wedge disclinations which are common in fiveling nanoparticles. When the Frank vector and the line of the disclination are...
- transform into single crystals and can grow very large, and are known as fivelings, do****ented as early as 1831 by Gustav Rose; further drawings are available...
- has five units similarly arranged with twinning, which were known as "fivelings" in the 19th century, more recently as "decahedral multiply twinned particles"...