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JEE Advanced · Chemistry · 15. Solid State

The number of hexagonal faces that are present in a truncated octahedron is

  1. A 2
  2. B 4
  3. C 6
  4. D 8
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(D) 8

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The truncated octahedron is the 14 -faced Archimedean solid, with 14 total faces. 6 squares and 8 regular hexagons. The truncated octahedron is formed by removing the six right square pyramids one from each point of a regular octahedron as:

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