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What does octahedral mean?

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Adjective
  1. Having eight plane surfaces; thus, in the shape or form of an octahedron.
  2. Of, or pertaining to octahedra.
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The outer portion of the garnets is altered to clinochlore, and small octahedral crystals of magnetite and martite occur in the schist.
Galena is also found as larger isolated octahedral crystals within the coarse calcite cement in breccias in the upper parts of the core.
What would happen if you roll a pair of dice that are not the same, for example, one cubic die and one octahedral die?
In 1990 bright emerald-green, transparent, octahedral fluorite crystals were discovered in the Kettle mine by mine surveyor Michelle Scott.
The principal crystalline forms of oxalate of lime, when it occurs as a urinary deposit, are the octahedral and the dumb-bell.
Starting from the octahedral ground-form, the table and culet are in every case first developed.

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