Order-5 truncated pentagonal hexecontahedron

Order-5 truncated pentagonal hexecontahedron
Conway t5gD or wD
Goldberg {5+,3}2,1
Fullerene C140
Faces 72:
60 hexagons
12 pentagons
Edges 210
Vertices 140
Symmetry group Icosahedral (I)
Dual polyhedron Pentakis snub dodecahedron
Properties convex, chiral

The order-5 truncated pentagonal hexecontahedron is a convex polyhedron with 72 faces: 60 hexagons and 12 pentagons triangular, with 210 edges, and 140 vertices. Its dual is the pentakis snub dodecahedron.

It is Goldberg polyhedron {5+,3}2,1 in the icosahedral family, with chiral symmetry. The relationship between pentagons steps into 2 hexagons away, and then a turn with one more step.

It is a Fullerene C140.[1]

Construction edit

It is explicitly called a pentatruncated pentagonal hexecontahedron since only the valence-5 vertices of the pentagonal hexecontahedron are truncated.[2]

 

Its topology can be constructed in Conway polyhedron notation as t5gD and more simply wD as a whirled dodecahedron, reducing original pentagonal faces and adding 5 distorted hexagons around each, in clockwise or counter-clockwise forms. This picture shows its flat construction before the geometry is adjusted into a more spherical form. The snub can create a (5,3) geodesic polyhedron by k5k6.

 

Related polyhedra edit

The whirled dodecahedron creates more polyhedra by basic Conway polyhedron notation. The zip whirled dodecahedron makes a chamfered truncated icosahedron, and Goldberg (4,1). Whirl applied twice produces Goldberg (5,3), and applied twice with reverse orientations produces goldberg (7,0).

Whirled dodecahedron polyhedra
"seed" ambo truncate zip expand bevel snub chamfer whirl whirl-reverse
 
wD = G(2,1)
wD
 
awD
awD
 
twD
twD
 
zwD = G(4,1)
zwD
 
ewD
ewD
 
bwD
bwD
 
swD
swD
 
cwD = G(4,2)
cwD
 
wwD = G(5,3)
wwD
 
wrwD = G(7,0)
wrwD
dual join needle kis ortho medial gyro dual chamfer dual whirl dual whirl-reverse
 
dwD
dwD
 
jwD
jwD
 
nwD
nwD
 
kwD
kwD
 
owD
owD
 
mwD
mwD
 
gwD
gwD
 
dcwD
dcwD
 
dwwD
dwwD
 
dwrwD
dwrwD

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Heinl, Sebastian (2015). "Giant Spherical Cluster with I-C140 Fullerene Topology". Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 54 (45): 13431–13435. doi:10.1002/anie.201505516. PMC 4691335. PMID 26411255.
  2. ^ Shaping Space: Exploring Polyhedra in Nature, Art, and the Geometrical Imagination, 2013, Chapter 9 Goldberg polyhedra [1]

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