buckyball

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What you think would be "reasonable to assume," that the buckyball is handcrafted by the LORD, would in fact be completely wrong.

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  • And if you make a three-dimensional structure, like a buckyball, they have all sorts of incredible properties. —  Bill Joy muses on what's next
  • A buckyball is a hollow carbon sphere about one nm in diameter—comprised of 60 carbon atoms. —  AnalogSFF,September2008
  • In 1985, three scientists discovered the buckminsterfullerene molecule, also known as a buckyball or fullerene. —  FSFMagazine,May2007
  • Tour's original single-molecule car had buckyball wheels and flexible axles, and it served as a proof-of-concept for the manufacture of machines at the nanoscale. —  PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
  • These were easier to synthesize and permitted the motor to move, because the buckyball wheels trapped the light energy that served as fuel before the motor could turn. —  PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
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  1. Shortening and alteration of buckminsterfullerene + ball1.
 

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