Cuboctahedron

Quick meaning: Cuboctahedron is a noun meaning (geometry) An Archimedean solid that has fourteen faces (eight triangular and six square) and is both isogonal and isotoxal.

Meaning

(geometry) An Archimedean solid that has fourteen faces (eight triangular and six square) and is both isogonal and isotoxal.

Example Sentences

Octahedra are also needed to make the packing of square-sharing cuboctahedra space filling (Fig. 2.4(c)).

There are just two polyhedra that will fulfill these conditions: the cuboctahedron and the icosidodecahedron (Diagram 3.3).

In the case of perfect, symmetric L1₀ cuboctahedra, two of the (001)-surfaces have to be terminated completely with either iron or platinum.

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].

Word Forms

• cuboctahedrons
• cuboctahedra

Synonyms for cuboctahedron

Depending on context, synonyms include heptaparallelohedron.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include rhombicuboctahedron, cubicuboctahedron, octahedron, icosidodecahedron, cubohemioctahedron, hexakisoctahedron.

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