The Platonic solids are prominent in the philosophy of Plato, their namesake.

Dice go back to the dawn of civilization with shapes that predated formal charting of Platonic solids.

So something which is trash, which is choking all the seabirds, you could just recycle this into a very, very joyous all the platonic solids can be made with things like this.

The five sacred solids, as you can see there.

He's not my boyfriend, it's just platonic love with benefits!

The transboundary pollution issue with the greatest impact is suspended solids.

They had a notion, a Platonic notion, of what tomato sauce was.

Mechanical processes, including solids transportation, crushing and pulverization, and screening and sieving.

Turbidity (or haze) is also applied to transparent solids such as glass or plastic.

Two major forms are Platonic realism ( universalia ante res ) and Aristotelian realism ( universalia in rebus ).

And that's an icosahedron, which is one of the five sacred solids, very important shapes.

These ordinarily explode in the upper atmosphere, and most or all of the solids are vaporized.

Solid hydrogen has a density of 0.086 g cm3 making it one of the lowest density solids.

For textbook liberals, the state should have kept its distance, acting purely as Platonic guardians of consumer sovereignty.

Dangerous goods are solids, liquids, or gases that can harm people, other living organisms, property, or the environment.

P waves are the fastest waves in solids and are therefore the first waves to appear on a seismogram.

Dry distillation is the heating of solid materials to produce gaseous products (which may condense into liquids or solids).

VIRTIS will map and study the nature of the solids and the temperature on the surface of the nucleus.

You just get the reduction. Why? Because the chef at Chez Panisse has a Platonic notion about red tail sashimi.

The soul, before its incarnation in the body, was in the realm of Ideas (very similar to the Platonic Forms ).

The fifth Platonic solid, the dodecahedron, Plato obscurely remarks, ...the god used for arranging the constellations on the whole heaven .

In 1913 she published her PhD thesis under the title Goethes Urphänomen und die platonische Idee (Goethe's Urphänomen and the Platonic ideal) in Marburg.

(2005) treated industrial wastewaters from pharmaceutical industry and observed that the suspended solids in the inlet wastewater were not removed in the reactor.

Now, all that, that Apollonian, Platonic model, is what the building industry is predicated on, and there are a number of things that exacerbate that.

You see where this could easily go if we push far enough, most of us do not actually know, in the Platonic sense, much of anything.

We'd have a water treatment system treating wastewater, turning that into fresh water and generating energy from the solids using just plants and micro organisms.

Economists who denigrate the value of democracy sometimes talk as if the alternative to democratic governance is decision making by high minded Platonic philosopher kings ideally economists!

When we talked about authentic tomato sauce in the 1970s, we talked about Italian tomato sauce. We talked about the earliest ragus, which had no visible solids, right?

Management of the economy should be entrusted to competent and independent experts, a group of Platonic Guardians empowered to act in the state s higher interests, regardless of electoral outcomes or public opinion.

Rock music was severely restricted in Communist dictatorships, just as jazz was in Nazi Germany, for all the Platonic reasons uncontrolled passions were seen as a threat to the perfect order of the state.

In Mysterium Cosmographicum , published in 1596, Kepler proposed a model of the solar system in which the five solids were set inside one another and separated by a series of inscribed and circumscribed spheres.

This should not be confused with Idealism, as presented by philosophers such as George Berkeley as Platonic abstractions are not spatial, temporal, or mental, they are not compatible with the latter Idealism's emphasis on mental existence.

However, Iraq observes that, given the standard efficiency of waste stabilization ponds, this would have resulted in increasing organic matter, suspended solids and microbiological contents of the effluent, but not in an increase in salinity.

Unlike many other biogeochemical cycles, the atmosphere does not play a significant role in the movement of phosphorus, because phosphorus and phosphorus based compounds are usually solids at the typical ranges of temperature and pressure found on Earth.

Getting back to the point of my particular presentation, Kepler, one of my great heroes, who realized that these five solids, which I spoke of earlier, were related somehow to the planets, but he couldn't prove it. It freaked him out.