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What is a tetrahedron?

What is a tetrahedron? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (geometry) A polyhedron with four faces; the regular tetrahedron, the faces of which are equal equilateral triangles, is one of the Platonic solids.
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With his geodesic dome, Fuller began to express a favorite geometric shape of his, the tetrahedron, and he put it everywhere he could.
The tetrahedrite crystal on this specimen is a simple tetrahedron with very smooth, clean crystal faces and a bright, shiny metallic gray color.
The strongest and most stable molecular structure is the three-dimensional tetrahedron, the configuration achieved with silicates.
Quartz crystals are silicon atoms surrounded by a tetrahedron of oxygen atoms linked at shared corners.
If each face is an equilateral triangle, the result is a regular tetrahedron, one of the five Platonic solids.
The four C-H bonds are directed towards the four corners of a tetrahedron, with carbon at its center and hydrogens at each vertex.

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