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.*******If the C60 molecule were the size of a soccer ball, then the soccer ball in turn would be roughly the size of the earth |
******You could line up 25 million C60 molecules on a ruler before passing the inch markk here to add your text. |
******Buckyballs spin much faster than a soccerball at more than 100 million times per second |
********************A buckyball is a single molecule measuring less than a billionth of a metre across, made of 60 carbon atoms and shaped like a tiny soccer ball |
**********Buckyballs are only a nanometer long, which is one-millionth the diameter of a human hair -- these balls of carbon are perfectly smooth and round |
C60. Carbon-60, a naturally occurring molecule comprised of sixty carbon atoms. Because C60 molecules are naturally spherical, .they tend to cluster together |
****.Harold Kroto saw something in astronomy data that he believed to be a type of carbon. He wanted to create conditions in the lab which might form the substance. In 1985 Harold Kroto, Rick Smalley, Robert Curl discovered buckyballs in the lab. |
*********Predictions are, that the buckyball/buckytube industry/research will soon be worth $100 billion a year. |
*********In 1991 Sumio Iijima, of Japan, discovered buckytubes |
****Sudbury, Ontario is the location of an important meteorite find, helping to prove buckyballs, and maybe the basics of life, came from the stars. |
