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Buckyball: Tiny Carbon Soccer Balls
In 1985, scientists discovered that 60 carbon atoms could join up to form one big soccer ball shape: a buckyball! It's a strange little molecule.
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3 Cosmic Time Capsules
Long before we were around, the universe was preserving clues about the distant past, in everything from little balls of carbon to huge groups of stars.
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Allotrope
This live-action video program is about the word Allotrope. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the word Allotrope through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful,...
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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...