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

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The number of square faces that are present in a truncated octahedron is ........ (A)  (B)  (C)  (D)

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The truncated octahedron is the14-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: <img class="img-fluid question-image" alt="image" src="https://cdn.tardigrade.in/img/question/chemistry/b6b929ee18dc27d7e2295644d78b0534-.png" /> Truncated octahedron unfolded in two-dimension.

Q. The number of square faces that are present in a truncated octahedron is ........

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:

Truncated octahedron unfolded in two-dimension.

Q. The number of square faces that are present in a truncated octahedron is ........

The truncated octahedron is the14−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: Truncated octahedron unfolded in two-dimension.

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:

Truncated octahedron unfolded in two-dimension.