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Balls to Buckminster Fuller: As those of you who have followed the link in abnu's post below will know, BF is best known for inventing the geodesic dome - a structure that (amazingly) gets proportionately lighter and stronger the bigger it is (it's the shape of that big round dome at Epcot amongst other things)

You may also know that Carbon has long been known to have two different crystalline forms (allotropes) - both diamond and graphite are pure carbon. However, in 1985 a third form of pure carbon with an entirely different crystalline structure was discovered. It consists of 60 carbon atoms arranged in what looks exactly like a geodesic dome structure. So what has this third allotrope been christened? Of course....Buckminsterfullerene.

Now, 'Buckminsterfullerene' is a bit of a mouthful, so in the scientific community this form of carbon has attracted the entirely wonderful nickname of a 'Buckyball'. Which just goes to show that there is no name, however unpromising it may look, that cannot end up having something named after it.

Posted by chris on Monday, December 22, 2003 @ 2:13 AM [ + ]

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