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rombicuboctaedro
An Archimedean solid with eight triangular and eighteen square faces; the small rhombicuboctahedron.
The gaps in a face-centered cubic packing of square sharing rhombicuboctahedra can be filled by cubes and tetrahedra (Fig. 2.4(h)).
Therefore eight triangles and eighteen (that is, twelve and six) squares join up to make an icosihexahedron, which I call a truncated cuboctahedral rhombus or a rhombicuboctahedron…
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