icosahedral

Examples

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• The atoms are arranged in an icosahedral structure for some size ranges and in more closely packed structures typical of bulk metals at other sizes.

  Academic text (1993)

• The propensity for forming the icosahedral structure is greater in the nickel clusters, consistent with the decrease in d-electron bonding in nickel relative to cobalt.

  Academic text (1993)

• Just explain how Thales, about six hundred years BC, found that water was icosahedral.

  Blog text (5)

• If icosahedral structures maximize the volume enclosed by a shell of identical units, is it any wonder viruses choose it?

  Academic text (2004)

• In the structure of SV40, the principles of quasi-equivalence in icosahedral construction have been taken to a new level of elegant complication.

  Academic text (1995)

• The minima are more numerous and don't necessarily correspond to Caspar and Klug's sequence of icosahedral structures.

  Academic text (2004)

• In 1962, Donald Caspar and Aaron Klug devised a mathematical rule for generating icosahedral capsid structures.

  Academic text (2004)

• Electron microscopy of infected cells demonstrated icosahedral, nonenveloped viral particles characteristic of MRVs (Figure 1).

  Academic text (2013)

• The family Reoviridae is a diverse group of viruses with double-stranded RNA genomes contained within icosahedral, nonenveloped, double-layered protein capsids (1).

  Academic text (2013)

• The soccer ball has an icosahedral shape, making it easy to kick and pass.

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