Octahedron

Plato associated the octahedron with air, because its minuscule components are so smooth that one can barely feel it.

The octahedron is a platonic solid consists of 8 congruent triangles.
It has 12 edges and 6 vertices. At each vertex 4 faces meet.

It looks like two pyramids with their bases together.

 

 

It has 11 possible nets:

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How to make the net: