Re: dbts: Geodesic Payments

[Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>]

Robert Hettinga wrote:
> (The fun bit is, Bucky Fuller was trying to emulate bubbles, which he
> considered the most perfect structure in nature, but what he got, instead, was
> a "perfect" form of soot, :-), which has an incomplete geodesic structure.
> Geodesic carbon has been found, or, more to the point, built, and they call it
> "Buckminsterfullerine" in his honor. Some people call it the first
> nanostructure. I think its formula is C60 or something. People are now
> apparently constructing Buckytubes, and they call them "nanotubes" these days.
> They are even threatening to use them in computers someday, if I remember
> correctly. )

The formula is indeed C60, and it is the only pure form of carbon (at
least, the whole family, called "fullerenes", are the only pure form -
all the other "pure" forms have a small amount of hydrogen at the
surface).

Cheers,

Ben.

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