Snub cube
| Snub cube | |
|---|---|
| Two different forms of a snub cube | |
| Type | Archimedean solid | 
| Faces | 38 | 
| Edges | 60 | 
| Vertices | 24 | 
| Symmetry group | Rotational octahedral symmetry | 
| Dihedral angle (degrees) | triangle-to-triangle: 153.23° triangle-to-square: 142.98° | 
| Dual polyhedron | Pentagonal icositetrahedron | 
| Properties | convex, 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 .