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Compound of five tetrahemihexahedra

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Compound of five tetrahemihexahedra
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A compound of five tetrahemihexahedra is a uniform polyhedron compound and a symmetric arrangement of five tetrahemihexahedra. It is chiral with icosahedral symmetry (I).

Compound of five tetrahemihexahedra
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TypeUniform compound
IndexUC18
Polyhedra5 tetrahemihexahedra
Faces20 triangles,
15 squares
Edges60
Vertices30
Symmetry groupchiral icosahedral (I)
Subgroup restricting to one constituentchiral tetrahedral (T)
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Five tetrahemihexahedra in an icosidodecahedron

Its convex hull is an icosidodecahedron. Hence it is a faceting of an icosidodecahedron, shown at left. It shares its edges and triangular faces with the compound of five octahedra.

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Icosidodecahedron
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Compound of five octahedra
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Compound of five tetrahemihexahedra

See also

References

  • Skilling, John (1976), "Uniform Compounds of Uniform Polyhedra", Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 79 (3): 447–457, doi:10.1017/S0305004100052440, MR 0397554.
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