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Science 26 April 1963:
Vol. 140. no. 3565, pp. 396 - 397
DOI: 10.1126/science.140.3565.396
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Radiolarians: Construction of Spherical Skeleton

I. J. Smalley 1

1 Department of Applied Chemistry, Northampton College, London, E.C.1, England

The skeleton of spherical radiolarians, which consists basically of a network of hexagonally shaped structures, also contains some non-hexagonal structures, since a network made up entirely of hexagons cannot completely cover a spherically shaped organism.

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