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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