rhombohedral packing

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.