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Carbon: Buckminsterfullerene
Discovered in 1985, Buckminsterfullerene has some fascinating characteristics. What is it and how is it shaping the future of chemistry? Chemistry - Atoms And Bonding - Learning Points. In the 1980s, a new carbon allotraope was found -...
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Hubble Space Telescope finds charged soccer-shaped molecules in space
The Hubble Space Telescope have identified electrically-charged molecules in space that are shaped like soccer balls.
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Animation of spinning buckyball (buckminsterfullerene) molecule: Molecules consisting of 60 joined carbon atoms
Animation of spinning buckyball (buckminsterfullerene) molecule: Molecules consisting of 60 joined carbon atoms
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CGI showing space-filling three-dimensional molecular model of a buckyball, also known as buckminsterfullerene, a molecule consisting of 60 carbon atoms
A fullerene is any molecule composed entirely of carbon, in the form of a hollow sphere, ellipsoid or tube. Spherical fullerenes are called buckyballs. C60 buckyballs can often be found in soot. The structure of C60 is a truncated...