Edge-contracted icosahedron

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Edge-contracted icosahedron
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Type Octadecahedron
Faces 18 triangles
Edges 27
Vertices 11
Vertex configuration 2 (34)
8 (35)
1 (36)
Symmetry group C2v, [2], (*22), order 4
Properties Convex, deltahedron
Net
Double diminished icosahedron net.png

In geometry, an edge-contracted icosahedron is a polyhedron with 18 triangular faces, 27 edges, and 11 vertices.

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Construction

It can be constructed from the regular icosahedron, with one edge contraction, removing one vertex, 3 edges, and 2 faces. This contraction distorts the circumscribed sphere original vertices. With all equilateral triangle faces, it has 2 sets of 3 coplanar equilateral triangles (each forming a half-hexagon), and thus is not a Johnson solid.

If the sets of three coplanar triangles are considered a single face (called a triamond [1] ), it has 10 vertices, 22 edges, and 14 faces, 12 triangles Polyiamond-1-1.svg and 2 triamonds Polyiamond-3-1.svg .

It may also be described as having a hybrid square-pentagonal antiprismatic core (an antiprismatic core with one square base and one pentagonal base); each base is then augmented with a pyramid.

The dissected regular icosahedron is a variant topologically equivalent to the sphenocorona with the two sets of 3 coplanar faces as trapezoids. This is the vertex figure of a 4D polytope, grand antiprism. It has 10 vertices, 22 edges, and 12 equilateral triangular faces and 2 trapezoid faces. [2]

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In chemistry

In chemistry, this polyhedron is most commonly called the octadecahedron, for 18 triangular faces, and represents the closo-boranate [B11H11]2−. [3]

Closo-undecaborate(11)-dianion-from-xtal-3D-bs-17.png
Ball-and-stick model of the
closo-undecaborate ion, [B11H11]2−
Octadecahedron B11H11 2- structure.gif
closo-boranate [B11H11]2−
Net of octadecahedron B11H11 2- structure.svg
Net

The elongated octahedron is similar to the edge-contracted icosahedron, but instead of only one edge contracted, two opposite edges are contracted.

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References

  1. "Convex Triamond Regular Polyhedra".
  2. John H. Conway, Heidi Burgiel, Chaim Goodman-Strauss, The Symmetries of Things 2008, ISBN   978-1-56881-220-5 (Chapter 26) The Grand Antiprism
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