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A Buckyegg Breaks Pentagon Rules

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. SimCity 2000 by thisnow1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've been replaying SimCity 2000 lately and that reads like one of the crazy ad-libbed thrown together random newspaper articles, but not quite as coherent.

  2. Am I the only who chuckled... by NeutronCowboy · · Score: 4, Funny

    .... when coming across the name of the scientist - Mrs Beavers? The jokes are endless. :)

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  3. If you add another terbium atom by thewils · · Score: 4, Funny

    You could give it to the Kiwis to play with ;)

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  4. Finally! by ZSpade · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now that the drive is well underway, how long till they finish the Heart of Gold?

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  5. Can't wait for the bucky chicken! by Deflatamouse! · · Score: 4, Funny

    But this time we know the egg definitely came first!

  6. Re:My understanding... by IainMH · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just because you don't understand it, it doesn't mean it doesn't matter.