octahedrons in English

noun
1
a three-dimensional shape having eight plane faces, especially a regular solid figure with eight equal triangular faces.
These are often known as the Platonic solids: the tetrahedron, cube, octahedron , dodecahedron and icosahedron.

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1. The octahedrons are composed of aluminium ions with a +3 charge bonded to six octahedrally coordinated hydroxides with a -1 charge.

2. Each of the hydroxides is bonded to only two aluminium atoms because one third of the octahedrons are vacant a central aluminium.

3. ‘The groundmass consists mainly of Bytownite with large grains of diopside and of colourless olivine, and small octahedrons of magnetite.’ ‘The highly soluble and aluminous Bytownite favored the …

4. Structurally, they are infinite ultrathin (~0.75 nm) 2D sheets with a high density of negative surface charges originating from the oxygen atoms at the corners of the adjoint octahedrons .

5. ‘The groundmass consists mainly of Bytownite with large grains of diopside and of colourless olivine, and small octahedrons of magnetite.’ ‘The highly soluble and aluminous Bytownite favored the formation of allophane.’ ‘I received a specimen of Bytownite today in the mail.’

6. It is known that carbon atoms can be arranged in two possible ways in the Cementite lattice, namely, at the centers of trigonal prisms with iron atoms at the vertexes and at the centers of slightly deformed octahedrons (octahedral