gyroidal

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  1. Spiral in arrangement or in movement. In crystallography, having certain planes arranged spirally, so that they incline all to the right or all to the left of a vertical line. In optics, turning the plane of polarization circularly or spirally to the right or left.

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  • These are freak occurrences, though; aside from the transuranics (which are about as stable as a life of crime), technetium is the rarest element in the natural universe and forms no known minerals Fact: Of the thirty-two possible crystal classes, only one—the gyroidal isometric—had, until recently, never been found in the mineral world. —  AnalogSFF,December2006
 

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  1. from Greek γυροειδής, like a circle, from γῦρος, a circle, + είδος, form.
 

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