Bucky Balls
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Presenter: Jonathan Hare
Published: March 2009
Age: 14-19 and upwards
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Type: Lectures
Source/institution: Vega
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The Buckyball, or C-60 molecule was discovered by accident (in the lab) while trying to understand the chemistry between the stars in the Interstellar Medium ISM. The discovery led to the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1996. Here we look at the structure of C-60 and make a molecular model.
