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  2. Ionic order - Wikipedia

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    The major features of the Ionic order are the volutes of its capital, which have been the subject of much theoretical and practical discourse, based on a brief and obscure passage in Vitruvius. [2] The only tools required to design these features were a straight-edge, a right angle, string (to establish half-lengths) and a compass.

  3. Ancient Greek architecture - Wikipedia

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    They are referred to as dentils, meaning "teeth", but their origin is clearly in narrow wooden slats which supported the roof of a timber structure. [42] The Ionic order is altogether lighter in appearance than the Doric, with the columns, including base and capital, having a 9:1 ratio with the diameter, while the whole entablature was also ...

  4. List of Ancient Greek temples - Wikipedia

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    The Temple of Olympian Zeus, Athens, (174 BC–132 AD), with the Parthenon (447–432 BC) in the background. This list of ancient Greek temples covers temples built by the Hellenic people from the 6th century BC until the 2nd century AD on mainland Greece and in Hellenic towns in the Aegean Islands, Asia Minor, Sicily and Italy ("Magna Graecia"), wherever there were Greek colonies, and the ...

  5. Classical order - Wikipedia

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    The Ionic shaft comes with four more flutes than the Doric counterpart (totalling 24). The Ionic base has two convex moldings called tori, which are separated by a scotia. The Ionic order is also marked by an entasis, a curved tapering in the column shaft. A column of the Ionic order is nine times more tall than its lower diameter.

  6. Pauling's rules - Wikipedia

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    For typical ionic solids, the cations are smaller than the anions, and each cation is surrounded by coordinated anions which form a polyhedron.The sum of the ionic radii determines the cation-anion distance, while the cation-anion radius ratio + / (or /) determines the coordination number (C.N.) of the cation, as well as the shape of the coordinated polyhedron of anions.

  7. Ancient Greek temple - Wikipedia

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    Samian column bases were decorated with a sequence of horizontal flutings, but in spite of this playfulness they weighed 1,500 kg a piece. The capitals of this structure were probably still entirely of wood, as was the entablature. Ionic volute capitals survive from the outer peristasis of the later rebuilding by Polycrates.

  8. Fluting (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    Varied Ionic bases, and at rear a shaft only begun with flutes at the top, Temple of Apollo, Didyma Fluting was used in both Greek and Roman architecture , especially for temples, but then became rare in Byzantine architecture , where the emphasis was on fine coloured stone, and the architecture of the Middle Ages in the West.

  9. Polyhedral skeletal electron pair theory - Wikipedia

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    In general, closo structures with n vertices are n-vertex polyhedra. To predict the structure of a nido cluster, the closo cluster with n + 1 vertices is used as a starting point; if the cluster is composed of small atoms a high connectivity vertex is removed, while if the cluster is composed of large atoms a low connectivity vertex is removed.