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| In [[geometry]], an '''octahedron''' (plural: octahedra) is a [[polyhedron]] with eight faces. A '''regular''' octahedron is a [[Platonic solid]] composed of eight [[equilateral triangle]]s, four of which meet at each [[wikt:vertex|vertex]].
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| A regular octahedron is the [[dual polyhedron]] of a [[cube]]. It is a [[Rectification (geometry)|rectified]] [[tetrahedron]]. It is a square [[bipyramid]] in any of three [[orthogonal]] orientations. It is also a triangular [[antiprism]] in any of four orientations.
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| ==Regular octahedron==
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| ===Dimensions===
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| If the edge length of a regular octahedron is ''a'', the [[radius]] of a circumscribed [[sphere]] (one that touches the octahedron at all vertices) is
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| :<math>r_u = \frac{a}{2} \sqrt{2} \approx 0.7071067 \cdot a</math>
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| and the radius of an inscribed sphere ([[tangent]] to each of the octahedron's faces) is
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| :<math>r_i = \frac{a}{6} \sqrt{6} \approx 0.4082482\cdot a</math>
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| while the midradius, which touches the middle of each edge, is
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| :<math>r_m = \frac{a}{2} = 0.5\cdot a</math>
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| ===Orthogonal projections===
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| The ''octahedron'' has four special [[orthogonal projection]]s, centered, on an edge, vertex, face, and normal to a face. The second and third correspond to the B<sub>2</sub> and A<sub>2</sub> [[Coxeter plane]]s.
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| ===Cartesian coordinates===
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| An octahedron with edge length sqrt(2) can be placed with its center at the origin and its vertices on the coordinate axes; the [[Cartesian coordinates]] of the vertices are then
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| : ( ±1, 0, 0 );
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| : ( 0, 0, ±1 ).
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| In an ''x''–''y''–''z'' [[Cartesian coordinate system]], the octahedron with center [[Coordinate system|coordinates]] (''a'', ''b'', ''c'') and radius ''r'' is the set of all points (''x'', ''y'', ''z'') such that
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| :<math>\left|x - a\right| + \left|y - b\right| + \left|z - c\right| = r.</math>
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| ===Area and volume===
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| The surface area ''A'' and the [[volume]] ''V'' of a regular octahedron of edge length ''a'' are:
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| :<math>A=2\sqrt{3}a^2 \approx 3.46410162a^2</math>
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| :<math>V=\frac{1}{3} \sqrt{2}a^3 \approx 0.471404521a^3</math>
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| Thus the volume is four times that of a regular [[tetrahedron]] with the same edge length, while the surface area is twice (because we have 8 vs. 4 triangles).
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| If an octahedron has been stretched so that it obeys the equation:
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| :<math>\left|\frac{x}{x_m}\right|+\left|\frac{y}{y_m}\right|+\left|\frac{z}{z_m}\right| = 1</math>
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| The formula for the surface area and volume expand to become:
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| :<math>A=4 \, x_m \, y_m \, z_m \times \sqrt{\frac{1}{x_m^2}+\frac{1}{y_m^2}+\frac{1}{z_m^2}}</math>
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| :<math>V=\frac{4}{3}\,x_m\,y_m\,z_m</math>
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| Additionally the inertia tensor of the stretched octahedron is:
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| \begin{bmatrix}
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| \frac{1}{10} m (y_m^2+z_m^2) & 0 & 0 \\
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| 0 & 0 & \frac{1}{10} m (x_m^2+y_m^2)
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| </math>
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| These reduce to the equations for the regular octahedron when:
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| :<math>x_m=y_m=z_m=a\,\frac{\sqrt{2}}{2}</math>
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| ===Geometric relations===
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| [[File:Compound of two tetrahedra.png|left|thumb|The octahedron represents the central intersection of two tetrahedra]]
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| The interior of the [[polyhedral compound|compound]] of two dual [[tetrahedra]] is an octahedron, and this compound, called the [[stella octangula]], is its first and only [[stellation]]. Correspondingly, a regular octahedron is the result of cutting off from a regular tetrahedron, four regular tetrahedra of half the linear size (i.e. [[Rectification (geometry)|rectifying]] the tetrahedron). The vertices of the octahedron lie at the midpoints of the edges of the tetrahedron, and in this sense it relates to the tetrahedron in the same way that the [[cuboctahedron]] and [[icosidodecahedron]] relate to the other Platonic solids. One can also divide the edges of an octahedron in the ratio of the [[golden ratio|golden mean]] to define the vertices of an [[icosahedron]]. This is done by first placing vectors along the octahedron's edges such that each face is bounded by a cycle, then similarly partitioning each edge into the golden mean along the direction of its vector. There are five octahedra that define any given icosahedron in this fashion, and together they define a ''regular compound''.
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| [[Tetrahedral-octahedral honeycomb|Octahedra and tetrahedra]] can be alternated to form a vertex, edge, and face-uniform [[tessellation of space]], called the [[octet truss]] by [[Buckminster Fuller]]. This is the only such tiling save the regular tessellation of [[cube]]s, and is one of the 28 [[convex uniform honeycomb]]s. Another is a tessellation of octahedra and [[cuboctahedra]].
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| The octahedron is unique among the Platonic solids in having an even number of faces meeting at each vertex. Consequently, it is the only member of that group to possess mirror planes that do not pass through any of the faces.
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| Using the standard nomenclature for [[Johnson solid]]s, an octahedron would be called a ''square bipyramid''. Truncation of two opposite vertices results in a [[square bifrustum]].
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| The octahedron is [[k-vertex-connected graph|4-connected]], meaning that it takes the removal of four vertices to disconnect the remaining vertices. It is one of only four 4-connected [[simplicial polytope|simplicial]] [[well-covered graph|well-covered]] polyhedra, meaning that all of the [[maximal independent set]]s of its vertices have the same size. The other three polyhedra with this property are the [[pentagonal dipyramid]], the [[snub disphenoid]], and an irregular polyhedron with 12 vertices and 20 triangular faces.<ref>{{Cite journal
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| |last1=Finbow |first1=Arthur S.
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| |last2=Hartnell |first2=Bert L.
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| |last3=Nowakowski |first3=Richard J.
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| |last4=Plummer |first4=Michael D. | author4-link = Michael D. Plummer
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| |doi=10.1016/j.dam.2009.08.002
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| |issue=8
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| |journal=Discrete Applied Mathematics
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| |mr=2602814
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| |pages=894–912
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| |title=On well-covered triangulations. III
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| |volume=158
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| |year=2010}}</ref>
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| ===Uniform colorings and symmetry===
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| There are 3 [[uniform coloring]]s of the octahedron, named by the triangular face colors going around each vertex: 1212, 1112, 1111.
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| The octahedron's [[symmetry group]] is O<sub>h</sub>, of order 48, the three dimensional [[hyperoctahedral group]]. This group's [[subgroup]]s include D<sub>3d</sub> (order 12), the symmetry group of a triangular [[antiprism]]; '''D<sub>4h</sub>''' (order 16), the symmetry group of a square [[bipyramid]]; and T<sub>d</sub> (order 24), the symmetry group of a [[Octahedron#Tetratetrahedron|rectified tetrahedron]]. These symmetries can be emphasized by different colorings of the faces.
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| {| class=wikitable
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| !Octahedron
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| ![[Rectification (geometry)|Rectified]] [[tetrahedron]]<BR>(Tetratetrahedron)
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| !Triangular [[antiprism]]
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| !Square [[bipyramid]]
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| !Image<BR>(Face coloring)
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| |[[File:Uniform polyhedron-43-t2.png|100px]]<BR>(1111)
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| |[[File:Uniform polyhedron-33-t1.png|100px]]<BR>(1212)
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| |[[File:Trigonal antiprism.png|100px]]<BR>(1112)
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| |[[File:Square bipyramid.png|100px]]<BR>(1111)
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| ![[Coxeter-Dynkin diagram|Coxeter-Dynkin]]
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| |{{CDD|node_h|2x|node_h|6|node}}<BR>{{CDD|node_h|2x|node_h|3|node_h}}
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| |{{CDD|node_f1|2|node_f1|4|node}}
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| |{{CDD|node_f1|2|node_f1|2|node_f1}}
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| ![[Schläfli symbol]]
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| |fs{2,4}<BR>{ } + {4}
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| ![[Wythoff symbol]]
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| ![[List of spherical symmetry groups|Symmetry]]
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| |O<sub>h</sub>, [4,3], (*432)
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| |T<sub>d</sub>, [3,3], (*332)
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| |D<sub>3d</sub>, [2<sup>+</sup>,6], (2*3)<BR>D<sub>3</sub>, [2,3]<sup>+</sup>, (322)
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| |D<sub>4h</sub>, [2,4], (*422)
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| ===Dual===
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| The octahedron is the [[dual polyhedron]] to the [[cube]].
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| :[[File:Dual Cube-Octahedron.svg|240px]]
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| ===Nets===
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| It has eleven arrangements of [[net (polyhedron)|nets]].
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| ==Irregular octahedra==
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| The following polyhedra are combinatorially equivalent to the regular polyhedron. They all have six vertices, eight triangular faces, and twelve edges that correspond one-for-one with the features of a regular octahedron.
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| *''Triangular [[antiprism]]s'': Two faces are equilateral, lie on parallel planes, and have a common axis of symmetry. The other six triangles are isosceles.
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| *Tetragonal [[bipyramid]]s, in which at least one of the equatorial quadrilaterals lies on a plane. The regular octahedron is a special case in which all three quadrilaterals are planar squares.
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| *[[Schönhardt polyhedron]], a nonconvex polyhedron that cannot be partitioned into tetrahedra without introducing new vertices.
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| === Other convex octahedra ===
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| More generally, an octahedron can be any polyhedron with eight faces. The regular octahedron has 6 vertices and 12 edges, the minimum for an octahedron; irregular octahedra may have as many as 12 vertices and 18 edges.<ref>[http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/symmetry/polynum0.htm]</ref>
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| There are 257 topologically distinct ''convex'' octahedra, excluding mirror images. More specifically there are 2, 11, 42, 74, 76, 38, 14 for octahedra with 6 to 12 vertices respectively.<ref>[http://www.numericana.com/data/polycount.htm Counting polyhedra]</ref><ref>http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/symmetry/poly8f0.htm</ref> (Two polyhedra are "topologically distinct" if they have intrinsically different arrangements of faces and vertices, such that it is impossible to distort one into the other simply by changing the lengths of edges or the angles between edges or faces.)
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| Some better known irregular octahedra include the following:
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| *[[Hexagonal prism]]: Two faces are parallel regular hexagons; six squares link corresponding pairs of hexagon edges.
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| *Heptagonal [[Pyramid (geometry)|pyramid]]: One face is a heptagon (usually regular), and the remaining seven faces are triangles (usually isosceles). It is not possible for all triangular faces to be equilateral.
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| *[[Truncated tetrahedron]]: The four faces from the tetrahedron are truncated to become regular hexagons, and there are four more equilateral triangle faces where each tetrahedron vertex was truncated.
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| *[[Tetragonal trapezohedron]]: The eight faces are congruent [[kite (geometry)|kites]].
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| ==Related polyhedra==
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| A regular octahedron can be augmented into a [[tetrahedron]] by adding 4 tetrahedra on alternated faces. Adding tetrahedra to all 8 faces creates the [[stellated octahedron]].
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| ![[stellated octahedron]]
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| The octahedron is one of a family of uniform polyhedra related to the cube.
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| {{Octahedral truncations}}
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| The octahedron is topologically related as a part of sequence of regular polyhedra with [[Schläfli symbol]]s {3,''n''}, continuing into the [[Hyperbolic space|hyperbolic plane]].
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| {{Triangular regular tiling}}
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| ===Tetratetrahedron===
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| The regular octahedron can also be considered a ''[[rectification (geometry)|rectified]] tetrahedron'' – and can be called a ''tetratetrahedron''. This can be shown by a 2-color face model. With this coloring, the octahedron has [[tetrahedral symmetry]].
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| Compare this truncation sequence between a tetrahedron and its dual:
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| The above shapes may also be realized as slices orthogonal to the long diagonal of a [[tesseract]]. If this diagonal is oriented vertically with a height of 1, then the first five slices above occur at heights ''r'', 3/8, 1/2, 5/8, and ''s'', where ''r'' is any number in the range (0,1/4], and ''s'' is any number in the range [3/4,1).
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| The tetratetrahedron can be seen in a sequence of [[quasiregular polyhedron]]s and tilings:
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| {{Quasiregular figure table}}
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| ===Trigonal antiprism===
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| As a [[antiprism|trigonal antiprism]], the octahedron is related to the hexagonal dihedral symmetry family.
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| {{Hexagonal dihedral truncations}}
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| ===Square bipyramid===
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| ===Tetrahemihexahedron===
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| The regular octahedron shares its edges and vertex arrangement with one [[nonconvex uniform polyhedron]]: the [[tetrahemihexahedron]], with which it shares four of the triangular faces.
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| ===Tetrahedral Truss===
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| A framework of repeating tetrahedrons and octahedrons was invented by [[Buckminster Fuller]] in the 1950s, known as a [[space frame]], commonly regarded as the strongest structure for resisting [[cantilever]] stresses.
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| ==Octahedra in the physical world==
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| ===Octahedra in nature===
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| [[Image:Fluorite octahedron.jpg|thumb|[[Fluorite]] octahedron.]]
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| *Natural crystals of [[diamond]], [[alum]] or [[fluorite]] are commonly octahedral, as the space-filling [[tetrahedral-octahedral honeycomb]].
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| *The plates of [[kamacite]] alloy in [[octahedrite]] [[meteorites]] are arranged paralleling the eight faces of an octahedron.
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| *Many metal ions [[Coordination chemistry|coordinate]] six ligands in an octahedral or [[Jahn-Teller effect|distorted]] octahedral configuration.
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| * [[Widmanstätten pattern]]s in [[nickel]]-[[iron]] [[crystal]]s
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| ===Octahedra in art and culture===
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| [[Image:Rubiks snake octahedron.jpg|thumb|Two identically formed [[rubik's snake]]s can approximate an octahedron.]]
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| *Especially in [[roleplaying game]]s, this solid is known as a "d8", one of the more common [[dice#Non-cubical dice|non-cubical dice]].
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| *If each edge of an octahedron is replaced by a one [[ohm (unit)|ohm]] [[resistor]], the resistance between opposite vertices is 1/2 ohms, and that between adjacent vertices 5/12 ohms.<ref>{{cite journal |last= Klein |first=Douglas J. |year=2002 |title=Resistance-Distance Sum Rules |journal=Croatica Chemica Acta |volume=75 |issue=2 |pages=633–649 |url=http://jagor.srce.hr/ccacaa/CCA-PDF/cca2002/v75-n2/CCA_75_2002_633_649_KLEIN.pdf |format=PDF |accessdate=2006-09-30}}</ref>
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| *Six musical notes can be arranged on the vertices of an octahedron in such a way that each edge represents a consonant dyad and each face represents a consonant triad; see [[hexany]].
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| ==See also==
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| *[[:Image:Octahedron.gif|Spinning octahedron]]
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| *[[Stella octangula]]
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| *[[Triakis octahedron]]
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| *[[Disdyakis dodecahedron|Hexakis octahedron]]
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| *[[Truncated octahedron]]
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| *[[Octahedral molecular geometry]]
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| *[[Octahedral symmetry]]
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| *[[Octahedral graph]]
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| *{{mathworld |urlname=Octahedron |title=Octahedron}}
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| *{{KlitzingPolytopes|polyhedra.htm|3D convex uniform polyhedra|x3o4o - oct}}
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| *[http://www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com/polyhedral-nets.html?net=1S2GJRuqXD7blH9ixbn1mPoTSPo6vkjWddm7xoNxFj&name=Octahedron#applet Editable printable net of an octahedron with interactive 3D view]
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| *[http://www.software3d.com/Octahedron.php Paper model of the octahedron]
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| *[http://www.kjmaclean.com/Geometry/GeometryHome.html K.J.M. MacLean, A Geometric Analysis of the Five Platonic Solids and Other Semi-Regular Polyhedra]
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| *[http://www.mathconsult.ch/showroom/unipoly/ The Uniform Polyhedra]
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| *[http://www.georgehart.com/virtual-polyhedra/vp.html Virtual Reality Polyhedra] The Encyclopedia of Polyhedra
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Some have colour screens and run apps, others have monochrome screens using e-ink disƿlay technology. These don�t run apps, can�t surf thе internet easily and barely work for anything other than books. So why would anyone buy one?
The truth is that tɦough they�re only good for one thing, they�гe tremendously good at it. Firstly, thоugh, the obvioսs downsides: ebook readers lack the physicality of, you knoѡ, rеal bߋoks and paper remains easier to navigatе, especiallү if you want tο flip back and forth between pages.
Real books are also better when it comes to remembering what you�ve reаd - text isn�t pinned to the same part of a page if it�s аll electronic.
But electronic bоoks offer extreme pоrtability - you can carry 2,000 noνеls and more in a lightweight, pocketable package. Not to mention connectivity: finish the third Harry Potter book and you сan download the next one before you can say accio book and without any need to visit a bookshop either - it's just a wi-fi (or іn some cases 3G) сonnection aѡay.
And unlikе coloսг-scгeen tablets, e-ink dіsplays are easily readable in bright sunshіne, even through sunglasses.
The final Ƅenefit of e-ink reaɗers is battery life. Wɦere an іPad has 10 hоurs� battery life, e-іnk гeadеrs last for weeks. That�s because e-ink ѡօrks using tiny balls under the screen, which are black οn one side, ԝhitе on the other. An electrical current tells each one which way to face, with the black sides forming the text.
Power is ߋnly consսmeɗ during the page turns, otherѡise the display is fixed in place almost indefinitely.
E-ink does however have a real reaԁability issue. For the ցrеatеst clarity, the entire page needs to Ьe refreshed eѵeгy few pages, usually around six. The refresɦ is an extended and unwatchable experience. But there�s no waү round it as withoսt it artеfacts are left onscreen which make the prіnt lоok muddy.
Barnes & Noble GlowLight
Until now. US book publisher Barneѕ & Noble has its own range of ebook readers, though a smaller rangе than Amazon. Its latest model, out today, is called the Nook GlowLight. And it has somеhow managed to get rid of those intrusive page refreshes. They happen during transitions from thе home page to the pаge of a book, but not as yоu�re reading.
This is a biց imprօvеmеnt over otheг readers and makes for ɑ much more immersive experіence. It puts Barnes and Noble in the forefront, though eхpect rivals ѕuch аs Amazon and Kobo to catсh up.
GlowLight refers to the waƴ the sϲreen lights up so you can reaɗ in darkеr environments. Unlіke cоlour screens, this is a frontlight, not a backlight. So it�s lighting the screen, not shining in your eyes. And unlike some front-lit Ԁisplays, this is an even, attractive light.
It�s restful to read even for extended periods.
The Nook GlowLight feels comfortable to hold: a matte-finish plaѕtic Ƅack and rubberised edɡing. It iѕ ѡider and squatter than the Kindle with ɑ marginallү Ьigger display. Like Amazon and Kobo, Barnes & Noble has a huge selеction of eboοks - oѵer three spring cleaning (browse around here) million, including a million free titles.
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Thе Nook Glowlight hɑs fonts housekeeping tiρs to choose from according to taste, but alѕo the option to loсk thе ebook to publishers� defaults, though this is less appealing to look at.
There�s no 3G ѵersion of the GlowLight, ѕo yߋu do need to be in a wi-fi area to download more books. It uses an infrа-red touchscreen, not а capacitive screen as the latеst Kindle does. This means you can turn the page with gloves on or by poking the screen cleaning for a reason witҺ a pen, say.
Therе are screens with higher-resolution displays and eҳtra features but this is a well-priced and appealing ebook reader with excellent front lighting and that bгilliant ҡey еxtra: pages that don�t flash at you.