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It look like two square based pyramids stuck together on their square sides.

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What does a octahedron look like?

In geometry, an octahedron is a polyhedron with eight sides. A regular octahedron is the dual polyhedron of a cube; It is a rectified tetrahedron.


What two solid shapes have the same faces 2 more edges and vertics than the other?

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What does the net of an octahedron look like?

The next of an octahedron looks like a series of 8 triangles.


What is Difference between octahedron and square bipyramid?

octahedron is a regular square bipyramid but a square bipyramid can be non-regular


What do the faces of a octahedron look like?

The faces of octahedra are triangles.


What regular solid looks like two square pyramids attached at their bases?

Sounds like an octahedron.


What is the area of an octahedron?

The area of a regular octahedron with a side length of x is 2√3 * x²


What shaped hole would you need for an octahedron to get through a shape sorter?

That's a really good question. It has several answers. You can put an octahedron through a square hole - just look at the octahedron point on.You can put an octahedron through a hole that's a regular hexagon - lay the octahedron down on a table on one of its triangles and look down on it and that's what you'll see.You can put an octahedron through a rhombus - to see that, look at it edge on. (This was the first answer posted to the question.)If you don't have a real octahedron to play with you can find one to rotate about with your mouse by visiting http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Octahedron.html


How many faces are there in a regular octahedron?

8


How many edges does a regular octahedron?

Twelve.


How many apex does an octahedron?

A regular octahedron has 6 apexes as it can be rotated evenly as each face is congruent.


Each face is what polygon on a octahedron?

A regular octahedron is one of the platonic solids. Each of its faces is an equilateral triangle.