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What does icosahedral mean?

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Adjective
  1. of, relating to, or having the shape of an icosahedron
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It is nonconvex with 60 golden rhombic faces with icosahedral symmetry.
You may note that the spheres sit more or less on the vertices of an icosahedron, which is why this configuration is called the icosahedral arrangement.
They suggested that spherical viruses such as Tomato bushy stunt virus had icosahedral symmetry and were made from 60 identical subunits.
But because of their fivefold symmetry, icosahedral clusters can't combine to form a regular crystal.
Transmission electron microscopy of thin sections of the liver revealed icosahedral virions in paracrystalline arrays within the nuclei of affected hepatocytes.
However they are of a very high quality which is not so frequent in India and often have more complex morphologies, such as icosahedral and bipyramidal shaped beads.

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