Crossword-Solution: OCTAHEDRA
We have 6 clues for the answer “OCTAHEDRA”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Eight-faced solids | 1 answer |
| Eight-sided solids | 1 answer |
| They've got two more sides than cubes | 1 answer |
| Unusual dice | 1 answer |
| pulral of octahedron: any polyhedron having eight plane faces | 1 answer |
| solid eight-sided figures; octahedrons | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
AARE
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
58 +2
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Sentences with OCTAHEDRA (5)
Sulphur can be obtained in two crystalline modifications, in orthorhombic octahedra, or in monoclinic prisms, the former of which is the more stable at ordinary temperatures.
Such regular interpenetrations are known in crystallography as "twins." There are also twins of diamond in which two octahedra (fig.
The alum there produced is the double basic potassium alum, and crystallizes into cubes instead of octahedra, _i.e._, the Roman alum of commerce.
Although from a geometrical point of view these figures are no longer symmetrical with respect to the axes and planes of symmetry, yet crystallographically they are just as symmetrical as the ideally developed form, and, however much their irregularity of development, they still are regular (cubic) octahedra of crystallography.
Calcium ferrite, magnesium ferrite and zinc ferrite, RO·Fe2O3 (R = Ca, Mg, Zn), are obtained by intensely heating mixtures of the oxides; magnesium ferrite occurs in nature as the mineral magnoferrite, and zinc ferrite as franklinite, both forming black octahedra.
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Used 2 times in crossword archives (2000–2019).