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What are octahedra?

What are octahedra? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. plural of octahedron
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The octahedra range from 5 to 10 pm in diameter and show interpenetrant growth.
Copper, Cu, has been found associated with cuprite octahedra at Pedra Preta, where these minerals occur on talc and magnesite.
Older collections sometimes contain small, very pale, transparent green fluorite octahedra from the Tomboy vein.
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.
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.

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