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Definition of Octahedrons
1. octahedron [n] - See also: octahedron
Lexicographical Neighbors of Octahedrons
Literary usage of Octahedrons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A System of Crystallography, with Its Application to Mineralogy by John Joseph Griffin (1841)
"The case that is to be explained under this title, is of the same importance in
respect to the scalene octahedrons as the cases explained in §\j 133—145, ..."
2. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1870)
"316, 317, the octahedrons being united with their edges parallel to each other.
... Suppose, for example, the number of octahedrons united as in fig, 316, ..."
3. Treatise on Mineralogy: Or, The Natural History of the Mineral Kingdom by Friedrich Mohs (1825)
"... -octahedrons, Fig. 35., ate contained under forty-eight scalene triangles. 1.
The solid angles of these forms are bounded by four, six, or eight faces; ..."
4. Elements of Chemistry by Victor Regnault, James Curtis Booth, William L. Faber (1865)
"One of these octahedrons is chosen as the principal or ... On the contrary, we
often observe several very different octahedrons, but which bear to each ..."
5. A System of Mineralogy: Descriptive Mineralogy, Comprising the Most Recent by James Dwight Dana, George Jarvis Brush, Edward Salisbury Dana (1885)
"Л mineral occurring in isometric octahedrons with and quartz, at the iron mine,
... octahedrons ..."
6. Elementary Course of Geology, Mineralogy, and Physical Geography by David T[homas] Ansted (1856)
"In this system the common base of the octahedrons is a rhomb and not a ...
77 is a combination of two of the octahedrons with a prism and the terminal face. ..."
7. A System of Mineralogy: Including an Extended Treatise on Crystallography by James Dwight Dana (1837)
"octahedrons may be obtained from these solids ; but they would be oblique. Fig.
99, represents one formed by a replacement of its solid angles, ..."
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