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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Sources:
Carbon history: http://www.caer.uky.edu/carbon/histor...
C60: http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/motm/buckyb...
Buckyballs (C60) - Periodic Table of ...
http://www.3rd1000.com/bucky/bucky.htm
http://scifun.chem.wisc.edu/chemweek/...
http://tech.mit.edu/V121/N49/Buckybal...
Superdiamond: http://www.anl.gov/articles/scientist...
Discovery:https://www.acs.org/content/dam/acsor...
Nobel Prize: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prize...
Uses: http://www.scientificamerican.com/art...
Buckyball solid: http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2012/...
Cancer bomb: http://www.science20.com/news_article...

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