Snub cube

Snub cube
Two different forms of a snub cube
TypeArchimedean solid
Faces38
Edges60
Vertices24
Symmetry groupRotational octahedral symmetry
Dihedral angle (degrees)triangle-to-triangle: 153.23°
triangle-to-square: 142.98°
Dual polyhedronPentagonal icositetrahedron
Propertiesconvex, chiral
Vertex figure
Net

In geometry, the snub cube, or snub cuboctahedron, is an Archimedean solid with 38 faces: 6 squares and 32 equilateral triangles. It has 60 edges and 24 vertices. Kepler first named it in Latin as cubus simus in 1619 in his Harmonices Mundi. H. S. M. Coxeter, noting it could be derived equally from the octahedron as the cube, called it snub cuboctahedron, with a vertical extended Schläfli symbol , and representing an alternation of a truncated cuboctahedron, which has Schläfli symbol .