buckminsterfullerene

Does that mean I should stop ingesting C60 Buckminsterfullerene despite the superstrength?

So is graphite, and buckminsterfullerene, and a number of other things.

I also recommend Jim Baggott's Perfect Symmetry: The Accidental Discovery of Buckminsterfullerene as another example at this rarely seen intermediate level.

The molecule was named buckminsterfullerene after the man Buckminster Fuller.

In 1985, Harry Kroto, Robert Curl and Rick Smalley described just such a molecule, carbon-60 (now known as a buckminsterfullerene), for which they received the Nobel prize in 1996.

You might like this too - this last weekend I finished writing a topological contour GPU shader for visualizing electron density grids, here is a molecule of buckminsterfullerene - the contour generator is running on the GPU, which is how I can keep the framerate so high.

("-ene" is a word ending for molecules.) Chemists then developed a more general class of molecules which they named "fullerenes", of which the buckminsterfullerene is a special case.

"Buckminsterfullerene" is named after Buckminster Fuller, who popularized geodesic domes.

Buckminsterfullerene was discovered after he died, and named after him because of his interest in this type of geometry.

There is a form of carbon named after him: Buckminsterfullerene.

> Buckyballs Not Buckminsterfullerene, but small magnets.