Buckyball: Tiny Carbon Soccer Balls
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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/history/carbonhistory.shtml
C60: http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/motm/buckyball/c60a.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljF5QhD5hnI
http://www.3rd1000.com/bucky/bucky.htm
http://scifun.chem.wisc.edu/chemweek/buckball/buckball.html
http://tech.mit.edu/V121/N49/Buckyballs.49f.html
Superdiamond: http://www.anl.gov/articles/scientists-create-new-diamond-denting-carbon
Discovery:https://www.acs.org/content/dam/acsorg/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/lesson-plans/discovery-of-fullerenes.pdf
Nobel Prize: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1996/press.html
Uses: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/have-buckminsterfullerene/
Buckyball solid: http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2012/feb/HQ_12-057_Spitzer_Buckyballs.html
Cancer bomb: http://www.science20.com/news_articles/buckybombs_buckminsterfullerene_to_detonate_cancer_cells-154109
Hosted by: Hank Green
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Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters -- we couldn't make SciShow without them! Shout out to Christopher Prevoe, Justin Ove, John Szymakowski, Peso255, Ruben Galvao, Fatima Iqbal, Justin Lentz, and David Campos.
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Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow
Or help support us by becoming our patron on Patreon:
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Sources:
Carbon history: http://www.caer.uky.edu/carbon/history/carbonhistory.shtml
C60: http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/motm/buckyball/c60a.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljF5QhD5hnI
http://www.3rd1000.com/bucky/bucky.htm
http://scifun.chem.wisc.edu/chemweek/buckball/buckball.html
http://tech.mit.edu/V121/N49/Buckyballs.49f.html
Superdiamond: http://www.anl.gov/articles/scientists-create-new-diamond-denting-carbon
Discovery:https://www.acs.org/content/dam/acsorg/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/lesson-plans/discovery-of-fullerenes.pdf
Nobel Prize: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1996/press.html
Uses: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/have-buckminsterfullerene/
Buckyball solid: http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2012/feb/HQ_12-057_Spitzer_Buckyballs.html
Cancer bomb: http://www.science20.com/news_articles/buckybombs_buckminsterfullerene_to_detonate_cancer_cells-154109
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