In geometry, the gyroelongated square pyramid is the Johnson solid that can be constructed by attaching an equilateral square pyramid to a square antiprism. It occurs in the chemistry such as square antiprismatic molecular geometry.

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Gyroelongated square pyramid
Type	Johnson J9 – J10 – J11
Faces	12 triangles 1 square
Edges	20
Vertices	9
Vertex configuration	${\displaystyle 1\times 3^{4}+4\times 3^{3}\times 4+4\times 3^{5}}$
Symmetry group	${\displaystyle C_{4v}}$
Properties	convex
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The gyroelongated square pyramid is constructed by attaching one equilateral square pyramid to the square antiprism, a process known as the gyroelongation.^[1] This construction involves the covering of one of two square faces and replacing them with the four equilateral triangles, so that the resulting polyhedron has twelve equilateral triangles and one square.^[2] The convex polyhedron in which all of the faces are regular is the Johnson solid, and the gyroelongated square pyramid is one of them, enumerated as ${\displaystyle J_{10}}$, the tenth Johnson solid.^[3]

The surface area of a gyroelongated square pyramid with edge length ${\displaystyle a}$ is:^[2]

$${\displaystyle \left(1+3{\sqrt {3}}\right)a^{2}\approx 6.196a^{2},}$$

the area of twelve equilateral triangles and a square. Its volume:^[2]

$${\displaystyle {\frac {{\sqrt {2}}+2{\sqrt {4+3{\sqrt {2}}}}}{6}}a^{3}\approx 1.193a^{3},}$$

can be obtained by slicing the square pyramid and the square antiprism, after which adding their volumes.^[2]

It has the same three-dimensional symmetry group as the square pyramid, the cyclic group ${\displaystyle C_{4v}}$ of order eight. Its dihedral angle can be derived by calculating the angle of a square pyramid and square antiprism in the following:^[4]

• the dihedral angle of an equilateral square pyramid between two adjacent triangles, approximately ${\displaystyle 109.47^{\circ }}$
• the dihedral angle of a square antiprism between two adjacent triangles, approximately ${\displaystyle 127.55^{\circ }}$, and between a triangle to its base is ${\displaystyle 103.83^{\circ }}$
• the dihedral angle between two adjacent triangles, on the edge where an equilateral square pyramid is attached to a square antiprism, is ${\displaystyle 158.57^{\circ }}$, for which by adding the dihedral angle of an equilateral square pyramid between its base and its lateral face ${\displaystyle 54.74^{\circ }}$ and the dihedral angle of a square antiprism between two adjacent triangles.

In stereochemistry, the capped square antiprismatic molecular geometry can be described as the atom cluster of the gyroelongated square pyramid. An example is [LaCl(H
₂O)
₇]⁴⁺
₂, a lanthanum(III) complex with a La–La bond.^[5]