Outer product

If a triangle

in space is faced from the opposite side of origin

and its vertices follow a counterclockwise order

is denominated as a right-hand system.

is the surface of the parallelogram whose sides are

.
Let

be a unit vector perpendicular to both

that forms a right-hand system.
The outer product is expressed as

and is defined as:

Property 1

Property 2

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