Rich and Karin's Journal

By glamferal

Buckmeister goes to the hills.

60 Carbon atoms. 12 Pentagons. 20 Hexagons. Double and single bonds. Discovered by frying graphite - pure carbon - and collecting the products and measuring mass. Huge spike at mass of 60 carbon atoms, therefore a stable arrangement. When one of the discoverers asked a colleague about putting the the shape together he answered by saying that nature had discovered the soccer ball. Formed in stars and on fried food!
Chemistry conference over, now off to the mountains. Snow!

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