Pentadecahedron

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Short description: Polyhedron with 15 faces


Some pentadecahedrons
Dual elongated triangular cupola.png
Dual elongated triangular cupola
Elongated pentagonal dipyramid.png
Elongated pentagonal dipyramid
Tridecagonal prism.svg
Tridecagonal prism
Elongated heptagonal pyramid.svg
Elongated heptagonal pyramid

A pentadecahedron (or pentakaidecahedron) is a polyhedron with 15 faces. No pentadecahedron is regular; hence, the name is ambiguous. There are numerous topologically distinct forms of a pentadecahedron, for example the tetradecagonal pyramid, and tridecagonal prism. In the pentadecahedron, none of the shapes are regular polyhedra, in other words, the regular pentadecahedron does not exist, and the pentadecahedron cannot fill the space, or, a space-filling pentadecahedron does not exist.[1]

In chemistry, some clusters of atoms are in the form of pentadecahedrons.[2] Calculations have shown that there is a unit cell of the pentadecahedron that is stable in the crystal.[3]

Convex

There are 23,833,988,129 topologically distinct convex pentadecahedra, excluding mirror images, having at least 10 vertices.[4] (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.)

Common pentadecahedrons

Name Type Image Symbol Vertices Sides Faces χ Face type Symmetry
Tridecagonal prism prism Tridecagonal prism.svg t{2,13}
{13}x{}
CDel node 1.pngCDel 2.pngCDel node 1.pngCDel 1x.pngCDel 3x.pngCDel node.png
26 39 15 2 2 tridecagons
13 rectangles
D13h, [13,2], (*13 2 2)
Tetradecagonal pyramid pyramid Tetradecagonal pyramid.svg ( )∨{14} 15 28 15 2 1 tetradecagon
14 triangles
C14v, [14], (*14 14)
Elongated heptagonal pyramid pyramid Elongated heptagonal pyramid.svg 15 28 15 2 7 triangles
7 rectangles
1 heptagon
D7h, [7,2], (*227), order 28
Heptagonal truncated cone truncated cone 七角錐台錐.svg 15 28 15 2 7 triangles
7 kites
1 heptagon
D7h, [7,2], (*227), order 28
Elongated pentagonal bipyramid Bipyramid
Johnson solid
Elongated pentagonal dipyramid.png 12 25 15 2 10 triangles
5 squares
D5h, [5,2], (*225)

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