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rhombicosidodecahedron
Mar. 6th, 2024 07:29 amrhombicosidodecahedron - n., an Archimedean solid with 62 regular faces (20 triangles, 30 squares, and 12 pentagons).
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Okay, so it's probably just as much cheating to pull brobdingnagian words from solid geometry as it is from chemistry, but I just love this one -- so fun to say, and so fun to look at. Technically, there are two solids called a rhombicosidodecahedron, of which this is the small rhombicosidodecahedron -- the great rhombicosidodecahedron also has 62 faces, but with 30 squares, 20 hexagons, and 12 decagons. I'm not going to parse out the elements -- er, um, I mean, doing so is left as an exercise for the reader. But I will mention that the name was coined in Latin by Johannes Kepler (in The Harmony of the World, 1619).
---L.
Thanks, WikiMedia!
Okay, so it's probably just as much cheating to pull brobdingnagian words from solid geometry as it is from chemistry, but I just love this one -- so fun to say, and so fun to look at. Technically, there are two solids called a rhombicosidodecahedron, of which this is the small rhombicosidodecahedron -- the great rhombicosidodecahedron also has 62 faces, but with 30 squares, 20 hexagons, and 12 decagons. I'm not going to parse out the elements -- er, um, I mean, doing so is left as an exercise for the reader. But I will mention that the name was coined in Latin by Johannes Kepler (in The Harmony of the World, 1619).
---L.
