Edge-contracted icosahedron
| Edge-contracted icosahedron | |
|---|---|
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| Faces | 18 triangles |
| Edges | 27 |
| Vertices | 11 |
| Symmetry | C2v, [2], (*22), order 4 |
| Vertex configuration | 2 (34) 8 (35) 1 (36) |
| Properties | Convex, deltahedron |
| Net | 
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In geometry, an edge-contracted icosahedron is a polyhedron with 18 triangular faces, 27 edges, and 11 vertices with C2v symmetry, order 4.
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 
and 2 triamonds 
.
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.
Related polytopes[]
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]
In chemistry[]
In chemistry, this polyhedron is most commonly called the octadecahedron, for 18 triangular faces, and represents the closo-boranate [B11H11]2−. [3]
 Ball-and-stick model of the closo-undecaborate ion, [B11H11]2− |
 closo-boranate [B11H11]2− |
 Net |
Related polyhedra[]
The elongated octahedron is similar to the edge-contracted icosahedron, but instead of only one edge contracted, two opposite edges are contracted.
References[]
- ^ "Convex Triamond Regular Polyhedra".
- ^ John H. Conway, Heidi Burgiel, Chaim Goodman-Strass, The Symmetries of Things 2008, ISBN 978-1-56881-220-5 (Chapter 26) The Grand Antiprism
- ^ Holleman, Arnold Frederik; Wiberg, Egon (2001), Wiberg, Nils (ed.), Inorganic Chemistry, translated by Eagleson, Mary; Brewer, William, San Diego/Berlin: Academic Press/De Gruyter, p. 1165, ISBN 0-12-352651-5
External links[]
- Polyhedra