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A flat plan showing the faces of a dodecahedron, a solid figure that has 12 pentagonal faces and 12 vertices.

Regular solid with 12 pentagonal faces and 12 vertices. It is one of the five regular polyhedra, or Platonic solids.



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Regular icosahedra and dodecahedra are special forms of both icosahedral point groups, 235 and m35.
Instead, one must try to imagine the effect of filling the space with a latticework of dodecahedra, each having 12 pentagonal faces (see cover).
Promising also is the dominance of octahedra above dodecahedra diamond forms, pointing to little resorption.
 
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