Compound of two great snub icosidodecahedra

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Compound of two great snub icosidodecahedra
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Type Uniform compound
IndexUC70
Polyhedra2 great snub icosidodecahedra
Faces40+120 triangles, 24 pentagrams
Edges300
Vertices120
Symmetry group icosahedral (Ih)
Subgroup restricting to one constituent chiral icosahedral (I)

This uniform polyhedron compound is a composition of the 2 enantiomers of the great snub icosidodecahedron.

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