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Calm down, Pepto (lemmy.today)
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[–] 2 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

I don't mean to contradict you because I'm on your side here, but do you mean a hexahedral molecule? Cubes have six faces. An octahedron looks like two pyramids placed face-to-face

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    It’s a bit counterintuitive to me too.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Oh, I see. The atoms are representing the vertices, of which the octahedron has 6. (Oddly enough, the hexahedron has 8 vertices...)

    That makes a lot more sense. For some reason I was thinking in terms of faces, but that wouldn't make much sense molecularly...

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