rhombohedral packing
rhombohedral packing
[¦räm·bō¦hē·drəl ¦pak·iŋ] (crystallography)
The tightest manner of systematic arrangement of uniform solid spheres in a clastic sediment or crystal lattice, characterized by a unit cell of six planes passed through eight sphere centers situated at the corners of a regular rhombohedron. Also known as rhombohedral close packing.
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