Truncated hexagonal trapezohedron

In geometry, the truncated hexagonal trapezohedron is the fourth in an infinite series of truncated trapezohedra. It has 12 pentagon and 2 hexagon faces. It can be constructed by taking a hexagonal trapezohedron and truncating the polar axis vertices.

Truncated hexagonal trapezohedron
TypeTruncated trapezohedron
Faces12 pentagons
2 hexagons
Edges36
Vertices24
Conway notationt6dA6
Symmetry groupD6d, [12,2+], 2*6, order 24
Rotation groupD6, [6,2]+, 226, order 12
Dual polyhedronGyroelongated hexagonal dipyramid
Propertiesconvex

Weaire–Phelan structure edit

Another form of this polyhedron has D2d symmetry and is a part of a space-filling honeycomb along with an irregular dodecahedron, called Weaire–Phelan structure.

 
irregular tetradecahedron
(Truncated hexagonal trapezohedron)
 
Weaire–Phelan honeycomb

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