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Truncated icosahedron

The truncated icosahedron is an Archimedean solid. It has the same shape as a football (ball) or a 60-carbon fullerene.

It has 12 regular pentagonal faces, 20 regular hexagonal faces, 60 vertices and 90 edges.

See Icosahedron and Dodecahedron.

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