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Definition of Octahedra
1. octahedron [n] - See also: octahedron
Lexicographical Neighbors of Octahedra
Literary usage of Octahedra
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Metallography of Steel and Cast Iron by Henry Marion Howe (1916)
"Reciprocal Truncation of Cubes and octahedra. ... each octahedron as composed of
a like nest of octahedra, all the cubes and all the octahedra being grouped ..."
2. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1865)
"... which crystallises in rose-coloured octahedra, seems to have decided acid
characters. Tetroxide of osmium OsO4 is a very remarkable body. ..."
3. Questions in Mathematics by John Cauchois Smith (1889)
"ences omitted to give place to a diagram showing two numbers of octahedra, six
lines apart, equally near the quotient of each term of the foregoing expanded ..."
4. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1918)
"Microscopic structure shows that the octahedra are pseudomorphs. 1016. Micaceous
hematite, unknown locality in Pennsylvania. Foote Mineral Co., No. 833. ..."
5. Lectures on some of the applications of chemistry and mechanics to pathology by Bence Jones (1867)
"Three drops of ditto ; octahedra. To the 5th. An excess ; many octahedra.
Seven other experiments were made with different healthy urines. ..."
6. Geology of Western Ore Deposits by Arthur Lakes (1905)
"Fine specimens of gold have been taken from the Gilpin mines, such as gold
incrustations on pyrite in leaf form, in crystalline form as octahedra, ..."
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