Order-5_truncated_pentagonal_hexecontahedron

Order-5 truncated pentagonal hexecontahedron

Order-5 truncated pentagonal hexecontahedron

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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.

Order-5 truncated pentagonal hexecontahedron
Conwayt5gD or wD
Goldberg{5+,3}2,1
FullereneC140
Faces72:
60 hexagons
12 pentagons
Edges210
Vertices140
Symmetry groupIcosahedral (I)
Dual polyhedronPentakis snub dodecahedron
Propertiesconvex, chiral

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

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.

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).

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See also

  • Truncated pentagonal icositetrahedron t4gC

References

  1. Heinl, Sebastian (2015). "Giant Spherical Cluster with I-C140 Fullerene Topology". Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 54 (45): 13431โ€“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



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