{|class="wikitable" bgcolor="#ffffff" cellpadding="5" align="right" style="margin-left:10px" width="320" !bgcolor=#e7dcc3 colspan=2|set of trapezohedra |- |align=center colspan=2|100px|decagonal trapezohedron. |- |bgcolor=#e7dcc3|schlÃ¤fli symbol||{ } &#x2a01; {n} |- |bgcolor=#e7dcc3|coxeter diagram|| |- |bgcolor=#e7dcc3|faces||2n kites |- |bgcolor=#e7dcc3|edges||4n |- |bgcolor=#e7dcc3|vertices||2n + 2 |- |bgcolor=#e7dcc3|face configuration||v3.3.3.n |- |bgcolor=#e7dcc3|symmetry group||dnd, [2+,2n], (2*n), order 4n |- |bgcolor=#e7dcc3|rotation group||dn, [2,n]+, (22n), order 2n |- |bgcolor=#e7dcc3|dual polyhedron||antiprism |- |bgcolor=#e7dcc3|properties||convex, face-transitive |} the n-gonal trapezohedron, antidipyramid or deltohedron is the dual polyhedron of an n-gonal antiprism. its 2n faces are congruent kites (also called trapezia or deltoids). the faces are symmetrically staggered. the n-gon part of the name does not reference the faces here but arrangement of vertices around an axis of symmetry. the dual n-gonal antiprism has two actual n-gon faces. an n-gonal trapezohedron can be decomposed into two equal n-gonal pyramids and an n-gonal antiprism. ==name== these figures, sometimes called deltohedra, must not be confused with deltahedra, whose faces are equilateral triangles. in texts describing the crystal habits of minerals, the word trapezohedron is often used for the polyhedron properly known as a deltoidal icositetrahedron. ==forms==  in the case of the dual of a triangular antiprism the kites are rhombi (or squares), hence these trapezohedra are also zonohedra. they are called rhombohedra. they are cubes scaled in the direction of a body diagonal. also they are the parallelepipeds with congruent rhombic faces. a special case of a rhombohedron is one in the which the rhombi which form the faces have angles of 60Â° and 120Â°. it can be decomposed into two equal regular tetrahedra and a regular octahedron. since parallelepipeds can fill space, so can a combination of regular tetrahedra and regular octahedra. a degenerate form, n=2, form a geometric tetrahedron with 6 vertices, 8 edges, and 4 degenerate kite faces that are degenerated into triangles. its dual is a degenerate form of antiprism, also a tetrahedron. ==symmetry== the symmetry group of an n-gonal trapezohedron is dnd of order 
Polyhedra