Meaning of hexaoctahedron | Babel Free

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Noun. [C2]

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“The writer has seen a remarkably fine specimen of alluvial (Ballaarat) gold, it was a group of inch and half-inch crystals of the hexaoctahedron crystallographic form⟳, hollowing towards the centre of the faces stair fashion, parallel to the combination lines.”

“Diamond, C. I. In octahedrons, hexaoctahedrons; cleavage octahedral.”

“The natural crystalline form⟳ of diamonds is a regular octahedron although a few have⟳ been found that were hexaoctahedrons.[…]Hexaoctahedrons have⟳ forty-eight faces.”

“The seven kinds consist⟳ of three unique forms which are the cube, octahedron, and rhombic dodecahedron, and four families of forms having the shape⟳ of icositetrahedra, trisoctahedra, tetrahexahedra, and hexaoctahedra.”

“It usually forms rounded octahedra, often twinned, transparent, yellow, brown, green, less often blue and black; it rarely occurs in the form⟳ of hexaoctahedra.”

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