Octahedra in The Physical World
- Especially in roleplaying games, this solid is known as a "d8", one of the more common non-cubical dice.
- If each edge of an octahedron is replaced by a one ohm resistor, the resistance between opposite vertices is 1/2 ohms, and that between adjacent vertices 5/12 ohms.
- Natural crystals of diamond, alum or fluorite are commonly octahedral, as the space-filling tetrahedral-octahedral honeycomb.
- The plates of kamacite alloy in octahedrite meteorites are arranged paralleling the eight faces of an octahedron.
- Many metal ions coordinate six ligands in an octahedral or distorted octahedral configuration.
- Widmanstätten patterns in nickel-iron crystals
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