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Originally Posted by Robert Tulip
Magnetite has a cubic crystal structure of an octahedron made of two pyramids base-to-base. What I am wondering is how close the shape of magnetite is to the shape of the Great Pyramid, which has slope of ~51.8667 degrees.
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Magnetite crystals are isometric. The octahedron form of an isometric crystal has equilateral triangles as faces. If my trigonometry is correct, the 'slope' works out to be 54.74 degrees.