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Rhombohedron
Polyhedron with six rhombi as faces / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In geometry, a rhombohedron (also called a rhombic hexahedron[1][2] or, inaccurately, a rhomboid[lower-alpha 1]) is a special case of a parallelepiped in which all six faces are congruent rhombi.[3] It can be used to define the rhombohedral lattice system, a honeycomb with rhombohedral cells. A rhombohedron has two opposite apices at which all face angles are equal; a prolate rhombohedron has this common angle acute, and an oblate rhombohedron has an obtuse angle at these vertices. A cube is a special case of a rhombohedron with all sides square.
Rhombohedron | |
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Type | prism |
Faces | 6 rhombi |
Edges | 12 |
Vertices | 8 |
Symmetry group | Ci , [2+,2+], (×), order 2 |
Properties | convex, equilateral, zonohedron, parallelohedron |