truncated icosahedron
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From truncated + icosahedron. Truncatedicosahedron.gif|regular truncated icosahedron Buckminsterfullerene animated.gif|C₆₀: buckminsterfullerene Comparison of truncated icosahedron and soccer ball.png|A soccer ball with a regular truncated icosahedron
Definitions
A polyhedron that has thirty-two faces (12 regular pentagons and 20 regular hexagons) and…
A polyhedron that has thirty-two faces (12 regular pentagons and 20 regular hexagons) and 60 vertices and 90 edges, and is one of the Archimedean solids.
- This is the truncated icosahedron. Where the five triangles meet to form a vertex is now a pentagon, and a hexagon now replaces each triangular face. Therefore, the truncated icosahedron is composed of twelve pentagons and twenty hexagons.
The neighborhood
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No curated loop yet for truncated icosahedron. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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