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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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Until the recent advances in computational power, simulating the protein coat of an entire icosahedral virus would have been futile.
We find that some atoms leave the decagonal layers to form icosahedral clusters.
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.
They suggested that spherical viruses such as Tomato bushy stunt virus had icosahedral symmetry and were made from 60 identical subunits.
It is nonconvex with 60 golden rhombic faces with icosahedral symmetry.
But because of their fivefold symmetry, icosahedral clusters can't combine to form a regular crystal.

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