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Copper, Cu, has been found associated with cuprite octahedra at Pedra Preta, where these minerals occur on talc and magnesite.
The octahedra range from 5 to 10 pm in diameter and show interpenetrant growth.
Older collections sometimes contain small, very pale, transparent green fluorite octahedra from the Tomboy vein.
Peterson and Jordan go on to investigate interesting links between integer octahedra and integer antiprisms.
Most that I have seen have been elongated octahedra or other forms, such as some of the branches of an arborescent aggregate.
In contrast to crystals that resemble textbook drawings, the most frequently encountered gold crystals are skeletal octahedra.
The Ogluinsky mine specimens are millimeter-sized octahedra, and the Nicolay mine specimens are unabraded and have mica attached.
She notes that lime-green to purplish-green modified fluorite octahedra have been found at this pegmatite.
The fluorite tends to occur only as cubes modified by the dodecahedron, with simple cubes or octahedra uncommon or absent.
One small lot of specimens from Alta Floresta, Mato Grosso, exhibited moderately rounded, well-developed octahedra.
The structure of boehmite consists of double layers of oxygen octahedra partially filled with Aluminium cations.
There were smoky quartz crystals plus huge fluorite octahedra.
Some of the cavities contain bits of iron oxides, and relatively sharp octahedra have been found on weathered pseudomorphs of limonite after pyrite.
This Eagle mine is well known for dark spruce-green, rough-surfaced octahedra of fluorite associated with rhombohedra of rhodochrosite to 0.75 inch on edge.
Promising also is the dominance of octahedra above dodecahedra diamond forms, pointing to little resorption.
All of the diamonds are white or brown octahedra or macles and fragments of octahedra which do not show extensive resorption.
These formed sandwiched octahedral Al sheet with oxygen atoms at the apex shared by the octahedra with the tetrahedra.
The structure consists of two distorted octahedra sharing a common edge through chlorine atom bridging.
Additionally, the Crockett Corner enabled some unique approaches for constructing cubes, octahedra, and other polyhedra.
They observed hard triangular prisms and hard gyrobifastigia to directly transform into their space-filling crystal, while hard truncated octahedra, rhombic.
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It crystallizes in the cubical system, often in beautiful octahedra and rhombic dodecahedra.
Lead monoxide is dimorphous, occurring as cubical dodecahedra and as rhombic octahedra.
Examples of simple forms amongst crystallized substances are octahedra of alum and spinel and cubes of salt and fluorspar.
Pligot obtained it as minute tetragonal octahedra and cubes by reducing ferrous chloride in hydrogen.
The smallest particles of fire are tetrahedra, of air octahedra, of water icosahedra.
They are dissolved by strong hydrochloric acid, and recrystallize as octahedra upon addition of ammonia.
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