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  • Resembling an illuminated transparent soccer ball, the C60 is comprised of hexagonal pieces that attach to each other in a spherical or planar structure and 360 LED lights, C60 can be hung, mounted on a wall or displayed simply on a flat surface.

    Ginger Dolden | Inhabitat 2009

  • They found high stability in C60, which suggested a molecular structure of great symmetry.

    Press Release: The 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1996

  • Cami and his colleagues identified buckyball molecules, known as C60 because they are made of 60 carbon atoms each.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

  • Buckyballs, also called C60 or buckministerfullerenes, after architect Buckminister Fuller's geodesic domes, are made of 60 carbon atoms structured like a black-and-white soccer ball.

    Image Gallery 2010

  • My recommendations: Abu Garcia 5000C, 5600C; my Chevy 1964 C60 grain truck, it's been outside from the moment it was granted life and it's still kickin!

    A Remington 870 Can Last Forever 2009

  • Interactive Google doodle marks 25 years since discovery of buckminsterfullerene C60, or the buckyball

    Jules Verne, French science fiction pioneer, marked with Google doodle 2011

  • My recommendations: Abu Garcia 5000C, 5600C; my Chevy 1964 C60 grain truck, it's been outside from the moment it was granted life and it's still kickin!

    A Remington 870 Can Last Forever 2009

  • The Studiodsgn artist presented his futuristic C60 LED modular lighting unit at the Zona Tortona design event to critical acclaim.

    Ginger Dolden | Inhabitat 2009

  • Because every time you turn a Bunsen burner to yellow, you make C60.

    Happy Birthday, Buckyballs! 2010

  • It now looks - I mean, I've just been talking to Mike in California by email, and the estimates are that 1 percent of the carbon in the interstellar medium may be in the form of C60.

    Happy Birthday, Buckyballs! 2010

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  • a buckyball

    July 17, 2015