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OCTAHEDRON (Gr. 6K-rw, eight, Mpa, See also: regular octahedron has for its faces equilateral triangles; it is the reciprocal of the See also: cube
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Octahedra having triangular faces other than equilateral occur as crystal forms
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See POLYHEDRON and CRYSTALLOGRAPHY
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