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Prime Structural Systems:

"Only the tetrahedron, octahedron and icosahedron are prime structural systems which can be arrived at in structural stability without a nucleus. All the Platonic "solids" and many more complex regular polyhedra are stable structural systems, but they all have a nucleus."

Citations

  1. RBF to EJA, Fairfield, Conn., Chez Wolf. 18 June 1971.

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