Making scads of molecular soccer balls. (20-sided truncated icosahedron composed of exactly 60 carbon atoms) From: Science News | Date: October 13, 1990 | COPYRIGHT 1990 Science Service, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Making scads of molecular soccer balls

Give a technician a day and he or she now can make about 90 million trillion soccer-ball-shaped molecules, each tiny enough for virus-sized athletes, and collectively weighing about one-tenth of a gram. That should yield enough of the spherical structures to prove their physical properties and even to change the minds of skeptics -- scientists who had likened most previous evidence for the wee carbon soccer balls to sightings of unic...

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