- plural of octahedron.
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These materials contained the rings of classic chain mail but also octahedrons with different angles or fewer cross struts.
From Scientific American • Aug. 20, 2021
Adjacent octahedrons were rotated 90 degrees from one another and connected at the corners.
From Scientific American • Aug. 20, 2021
Scientists created a platinum alloy blended with nickel, forming three-dimensional shapes at the nanometer scale -- in this case, octahedrons.
From Scientific American • Jun. 20, 2013
The visitor is always being encompassed �by gas lighting or lasers or, in the case of Tony Smith's piece, by several thousand cardboard tetrahedrons and octahedrons supplied by the Container Corp. of America.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the metallic state, copper is of a red color, has great lustre and tenacity, is ductile and malleable, and crystallizes in octahedrons and cubes.
