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A Buckyegg Breaks Pentagon Rules

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. The title is confusing... by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Bob Woodward is coming out with a new book about the Bush Administration, so the Pentagon is laying rotten eggs for everyone to see? No wonder there's so much swamp gas in Washington.

  2. Re:I feel so dump by pembo13 · · Score: 0, Troll

    To dumb to spell properly too it seems.

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