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icosahedron

Regular solid with 20 equilateral (equal-sided) triangular faces. It is one of the five regular polyhedra, or Platonic solids.



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A second chandelier formed of mirrored icosahedrons, which have 20 faces, can be changed from a cloud arrangement to a reflective ball of lights.
Then these rings connect to make icosahedrons (see diagram).
Four or more of these icosahedrons are bound together to a molecule of porphyrin, an iron-containing molecule that remains preferentially incancer cells.
 
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