A Buckyegg Breaks Pentagon Rules

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday September 29, 2006 @05:34PM from the gotta-break-some-eggs-to-well-you-know dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "Chemists from Virginia and California have cooked a soup of fullerenes which produced an improbable buckyegg. The egg-shaped structure of their 'buckyballs' was a complete surprise for the researchers. In fact, they wanted to trap some atoms of terbium in a buckyball "to make compounds that could be both medically useful and well-tolerated in the body." And they obtained a buckyegg which both violates some chemistry laws and the FIFA soccer laws which were used until the last World Cup. Read more for additional references and a picture of this buckyegg carrying metal molecules."

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Re:I feel so dump by gabriel.dain · 2006-09-29 19:35 · Score: 1, Flamebait

Chemistry, and high school is more than enough. We studied fullerenes in the first year of senior high school.Its not that hard.
I thought hackers and nerds were reknowned for their thirst for knowledge; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fullerenes
C'mon; you couldn't even be bothered to look it up in wikipedia?