octahedrons
- 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
He built each piece originally in tiny paper tetrahedrons, octahedrons or dodecahedrons.
From Time Magazine Archive
It has a fibrous structure, crystallizes easily in regular octahedrons, presenting often the peculiar arborescent appearance of the fern.
