There are 5 platonic solids which are the only 5 regular polyhedra (possible).
Plato attributed 4 of them to the 4 elements:
Aristotle added the fifth element "Ether" saying the heavens were made of it; he did not associate the fifth platonic solid, the Dodecahedron, to it.
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Platonic solids are 3D shapes formed using only regular shapes. Only 1 type of regular shape is used to make a platonic solid. Platonic solids are the simplest and purest form of 3D shapes.
No. All the faces of a Platonic solid are identical regular polygons.
A Platonic solid is a regular, convex polyhedron. The same amount of edges must meet at each vertex, all the faces need to be uniform, and all the dihedral angles must be the same.
A cube is the only platonic solid which is a prism.
A Platonic solid is a solid all of whose face are regular and congruent polygons.There are five of these:A Tetrahedron. Four faces, each an equilateral triangle.Ad InfoA Hexahedron (Cube). Six faces, each a square.An Octahedron. Eight faces, each an equilateral triangle.A Dodecahedron. Twelve faces, each a regular pentagon.An Icosahedron. Twenty faces, each an equilateral triangle.