Dodecahedron pentagonal faces, with three meeting in each of the 20 vertices. However, the pentagons are not regular and the figure has no fivefold symmetry axes. Although regular dodecahedra do not exist in crystals, the tetartoid form does. The name tetartoid comes from the Greek root for one-fourth because it has one fourth of full octahedral symmetry, and half of pyritohedral symmetry. The mineral cobaltite can have this symmetry form. Its topology can be as a cube with square faces bisected into 2 rectangles like the pyritohedron, and then the bisection lines are slanted retaining 3-fold rotation at the 8 corners.
Truncated trapezohedron For example, the icosahedron is the dual of the dodecahedron. <br> Truncated trapezohedron An "n"-gonal truncated trapezohedron is a polyhedron formed by a "n"-gonal trapezohedron with "n"-gonal pyramids truncated from its two polar axis vertices. If the polar vertices are completely truncated (diminished), a trapezohedron becomes an antiprism. The vertices exist as 4 "n"-gons in four parallel planes, with alternating orientation in the middle creating the pentagons. The regular dodecahedron is the most common polyhedron in this class, being a platonic solid, with 12 congruent pentagonal faces. A "truncated trapezohedron" has all vertices with 3 faces. This means that the