rhombohedral packing

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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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