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In crystals, common polyhedral shapes include cubes, octahedra, and dodecahedra. These shapes are formed by the arrangement of atoms or ions within the crystal lattice structure.

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What is a nuclear polyhedral virus?

This virus' image, using an electron microscope, shows an inclusion which appears to be similar to a nucleus. (Viruses have strands of RNA or DNA but no nucleus.) That is where the "nuclear" originates from. Polyhedral means that the virus has many sides. This is one of three shapes that viruses show. It affects the Wattle Bag Worm, the Korean Gypsy Moth, and cabbage leaves.


What do crystal shapes have to do with minerals?

Minerals owe their colors to the elements that comprise them, or from impurities that make their way into the crystal lattice. Occasionally their color is derived from the effects of proximity to radioactive elements. Crystals are divided into six different classes. Every mineral will form crystals that occur in one of these six classes. The geometric shapes that comprise these different classes of crystals occur because of the preferred arrangement of atoms within the lattice framework of any particular mineral crystal.


What do symmerical crystal shapes indicate about a mineral?

what ddoes the crystals shape look like


What type of rock has course-grained crystals of all different shapes and sizes?

The type of rock that has coarse-grained crystals of various shapes and sizes is called igneous rock, specifically granite. Granite forms from the slow cooling of magma beneath the Earth's surface, allowing large crystals to develop. Its composition typically includes quartz, feldspar, and mica, resulting in a diverse range of crystal shapes and sizes.


Why do specific crystals shapes occur?

because they form on rocks so they take over as in, grow inside causing them to look like bunches

Related Questions

What is the geometric shape does a virous prefer?

Viruses have different geometrical shapes, such as helical and polyhedral shapes. A particular polyhedral shape common to many viruses is a dodecahedron shape. This is a geometric shape that has 12 sides.


What are the 4 basic virus shapes?

Spacecraft, spherical, crystal, and cylinder , and these are the 4 basic shapes of virus


What geometrical shapes do crystals form?

Crystals form in the shapes of hexagons or six-sided prisms.


What geometrical shapes show how crystals form?

Crystals form in the shapes of hexagons or six-sided prisms.


Do crystals have the same shapes?

No, crystals can have various shapes depending on their chemical composition and the conditions in which they form. Common crystal shapes include cubic, hexagonal, prismatic, and needle-like forms. Crystals can also exhibit unique and complex shapes based on their atomic arrangement.


What are the shapes of minerals made by their atoms are arrange?

The shapes are called crystals.


Is the T2 phage virus polyhedral or helical?

polyhedral


Minerals form geometric shapes called?

Crystals.


Which 3 shapes have a total of 11 faces?

There cannot be an answer purely in terms of polyhedra since each one must have at least 4 faces. Once you allow non-polyhedral shapes, one possible answer is two spheres and a nonahedron.


What are the geometric shapes in minerals called?

I believe they are called crystals.


What are all of the three-dimensional geometric terms?

Since there are infinitely many polyhedra, they alone will generate an infinite number of terms. Then there are non-polyhedral shapes such as spheres, spheroids, ellipsoids, toroids (doughnut shape) and lots of less well-known shapes.


What shapes are salt crystals?

Salt Crystals can come in many forms, one such is a cubical formation.