Buckyball (or Buckminsterfullerene) is a spherical fullerene molecule with the formula C60. It is a cage-like fused-ring structure which resembles a soccer ball, made of twenty hexagons and twelve pentagons, with a carbon atom at the vertices of each polygon…
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C60
Buckminsterfullerene (or buckyball) is a spherical fullerene molecule with the formula C60. It is a cage-like fused-ring structure which resembles a soccer ball, made of twenty hexagons and twelve pentagons, with a carbon atom at the vertices of each polygon…
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Fullerenes
A fullerene is any molecule composed entirely of carbon, in the form of a hollow sphere, ellipsoid or tube. Spherical fullerenes are also called buckyballs, and they resemble the balls used in association football. Cylindrical ones are called carbon nanotubes…
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The Discovery of Fullerenes
Carbon, the basis of life, is one of the most common elements and one of the most studied; it comprises the whole discipline of organic chemistry. A study of pure carbon would not seem all that exciting to most chemists.…
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Tagged with: American Chemical Society, Buckminster, Buckminster Fuller, buckyball, C60, carbon, Discovery of Fullerene, Fullerene, Harry Kroto, James Heath, Rice University, Richard Smalley, Robert Curl, Smalley
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