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Dodecahedron:
Number of faces: 12
Number of edges: 30
Number of vertices: 20

The dodecahedron is one of the 5 Platonic Solids (convex regular polyhedra). The model is made of 12 regular pentagonal faces.

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The large version of the dodecahedron has a circumscribed sphere diameter of 24 cm (9.5 inches).

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