• wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
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      2 days 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…