Octadecahedron

In geometry, an octadecahedron (or octakaidecahedron) is a polyhedron with 18 faces. No octadecahedron is regular; hence, the name does not commonly refer to one specific polyhedron.

In chemistry, "the octadecahedron" commonly refers to a specific structure with C_2v symmetry, the edge-contracted icosahedron, formed from a regular icosahedron with one edge contracted. It is the shape of the closo-boranate ion [B₁₁H₁₁]²⁻.

Convex

There are 107,854,282,197,058 topologically distinct convex octadecahedra, excluding mirror images, having at least 11 vertices.[1] (Two polyhedra are "topologically distinct" if they have intrinsically different arrangements of faces and vertices, such that it is impossible to distort one into the other simply by changing the lengths of edges or the angles between edges or faces.)

Examples

The most familiar octadecahedra are the heptadecagonal pyramid, hexadecagonal prism, and the octagonal antiprism. The hexadecagonal prism and the octagonal antiprism are uniform polyhedra, with regular bases and square or equilateral triangular sides. Four more octadecahedra are also found among the Johnson solids: the square gyrobicupola, the square orthobicupola, the elongated square cupola (also known as the diminished rhombicuboctahedron), and the sphenomegacorona. Four Johnson solids have octadecahedral duals: the elongated triangular orthobicupola, the elongated triangular gyrobicupola, the gyroelongated triangular bicupola, and the triangular hebesphenorotunda.

Octagonal antiprism	Square gyrobicupola	Sphenomegacorona	Elongated hexagonal bipyramid

In addition, some uniform star polyhedra are also octadecahedra:

Octagrammic antiprism	Octagrammic crossed-antiprism	Small rhombihexahedron	Small dodecahemidodecahedron	Great rhombihexahedron	Great dodecahemidodecahedron

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References

Counting polyhedra

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[1] Counting polyhedra

Polyhedra
Listed by number of faces
1–10 faces	Monohedron Dihedron Trihedron Tetrahedron Pentahedron Hexahedron Heptahedron Octahedron Enneahedron Decahedron
11–20 faces	Hendecahedron Dodecahedron Tridecahedron Tetradecahedron Pentadecahedron Hexadecahedron Heptadecahedron Octadecahedron Enneadecahedron Icosahedron
>21 faces	Icositetrahedron (24) Triacontahedron (30) Icosidodecahedron (32) Hexecontahedron (60) Enneacontahedron (90) Hectotriadiohedron (132) Apeirohedron (∞)