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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Do not click that link at the end! by Anonymous Coward · 2006-09-29 17:37 · Score: 5, Informative

Leads to Rolands blog. He's whoring it again. Don't give him your clickthroughs.
Re:Wha? by b0r1s · 2006-09-29 18:26 · Score: 5, Informative

Definitely above the average story, but should be within the grasp of many.

I was only confused until I realized that the Pentagon in the heading was the shape, not the structure/organization. Then it all made much, much more sense.

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Direct link to story by Yetihehe · 2006-09-29 18:34 · Score: 5, Informative

Direct link to story http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/search/news_detail.las so?id=7891

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