cuboctahedron
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Etymology
[edit]Blend of cube + octahedron, reflecting the fact that it can be regarded both as a rectified cube and a rectified octahedron.
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[edit]cuboctahedron (plural cuboctahedrons or cuboctahedra)
- (geometry) An Archimedean solid that has fourteen faces (eight triangular and six square) and is both isogonal and isotoxal.
- 1976, Hugh Kenner, Geodesic Math and how to Use it[1], page 21:
- There are just two polyhedra that will fulfill these conditions: the cuboctahedron and the icosidodecahedron (Diagram 3.3).
- 2008, M. E. Gruner, Georg Rollmann, Alfred Hucht, Peter Entel, “Structural and Magnetic Proprties of Transition Metal Nanoparticles from First Principles”, in Rolf Haug, editor, Advances in Solid State Physics 47, page 124:
- In the case of perfect, symmetric L10 cuboctahedra, two of the (001)-surfaces have to be terminated completely with either iron or platinum.
- 2009, Walter Steurer, Sofia Deloudi, Crystallography of Quasicrystals: Concepts, Methods and Structures, page 54:
- Octahedra are also needed to make the packing of square-sharing cuboctahedra space filling (Fig. 2.4(c)).
- 2015, Ke Jiang, Antoliy O. Pinchuk, Chapter Two: Noble Metal Nanomaterials: Synthetic Routes, Fundamental Properties, and Promising Applications, Robert E. Camley, Robert L. Stamps (editors), Solid State Physics, Volume 66, Elsevier, page 151,
- Yang and coworkers have prepared Pt cuboctahedrons and cubes by reducing K2PtCl4 with H2 generated in situ from the hydrolysis of NaBH4 in the presence of tetradecyltrimethylammonium bromide as a surfactant [157,158].
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[edit]polyhedron with 8 triangular and 6 square faces
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