¶ Icosahedron as Electron Model
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Icosahedron as Electron Model:
“Where the volume of tetrahedron is one, octahedron is four and the volume of the icosahedron is not quite that of the vector equilibrium. The volume of the vector equilibrium was 20 and the icosahedron is 18.63. It is the only point where we get to a strange number, but 18.63 is a very interesting kind of number because the electron is one-eighteen-hundred-and-sixty-third of a proton. So it is a very interesting kind of a number when you begin to get into atomics.”
¶ Citations
- Oregon Lecture #7, p. 249. 11 Jul’62
