Guest rog Posted December 8, 2002 Share Posted December 8, 2002 A letter from Ernest Glitch to Michael Faraday dated 1856 would appear to indicate the discovery of C60 in the combustion products of acetylene http://www.lateralscience.co.ukhttp://www.lateralscience.co.uk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fafalone Posted December 8, 2002 Share Posted December 8, 2002 A C60 fullerene has 20 hexagons; but also 12 pentagons, and the observation doesn't mention these; but the biggest problem I see is it's diameter; we simply couldn't see things 7 angstroms in diameter 1856. If we could, and above 260 kelvin, the spin would make it appear spherical. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest rog Posted December 8, 2002 Share Posted December 8, 2002 Glitch is seeing crystallised C60, not the actual molecules. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fafalone Posted December 8, 2002 Share Posted December 8, 2002 So because it's mostly carbon and shaped like a hexagon, it's fullerene? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fafalone Posted December 8, 2002 Share Posted December 8, 2002 Moved to Pseudoscience http://science.slashdot.org/science/02/12/07/1738243.shtml?tid=133 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayonara Posted December 10, 2002 Share Posted December 10, 2002 Originally posted by fafalone Moved to Pseudoscience http://science.slashdot.org/science/02/12/07/1738243.shtml?tid=133 If you follow the "Roger Curry" link you end up back at Rog's site. So... ummmm... what's the point of posting the /. article? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fafalone Posted December 10, 2002 Share Posted December 10, 2002 To read the comments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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