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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 principal crystalline forms of oxalate of lime, when it occurs as a urinary deposit, are the octahedral and the dumb-bell.
In 1990 bright emerald-green, transparent, octahedral fluorite crystals were discovered in the Kettle mine by mine surveyor Michelle Scott.
The outer portion of the garnets is altered to clinochlore, and small octahedral crystals of magnetite and martite occur in the schist.
Also, some glass scientists thought the glass would immediately crystallize if it became octahedral.
They differ, however, from the other layer silicates because they lack continuous octahedral sheets.
Starting from the octahedral ground-form, the table and culet are in every case first developed.

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