2006-08-05 17:49:21 · 9 answers · asked by Ahab 5 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
A dodecahedron is a solid made of 12 faces, in the case of a regular dodecahedron, those faces are pentagon. If you take a soccer ball (or a fulerene C60 molecule for that matter) and enlarge each 5 sided face so that they also take half of each hexagon surrounding them, you'd end up with a dodecahedron.
2006-08-05 18:00:44 · answer #1 · answered by Vincent G 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
A dodecahedron is the name for a polyhedron with 12 faces. The regular dodecahedron is the name given to the polyhedron constructed from 12 regular pentagons, 'glued together' at the edges.
There are pictures at MathWorld.
2006-08-05 18:14:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just like how you can have a cube with six equal faces/sides, a dodecahedron has twelve equal faces/sides.
2006-08-05 17:56:33 · answer #3 · answered by The Prince 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A regular polyhedron with 12 faces
it is made of 12 pentagonal faces, 20 vertices and 30 edges
2006-08-05 17:58:37 · answer #4 · answered by lose control 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Solid having 12 plane faces.
2006-08-05 17:54:57 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://whistleralley.com/polyhedra/dodecahedron.htm
all u need to know about dodecahedron
2006-08-05 19:58:40 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
A solid figure with twelve plane faces.
2006-08-05 18:57:52 · answer #7 · answered by Brenmore 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
12 sided regular faced three dimentional object
2006-08-05 17:53:32 · answer #8 · answered by imanalchemist 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its a d12! (for gamer geeks)
2006-08-05 18:06:31 · answer #9 · answered by Tonks_Fan! 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋