Comments on: How Many People Does It Take To Make A Buckyball? http://cenblog.org/2008/07/02/how-many-people-does-it-take-to-make-a-buckyball/ Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:17:18 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: cyndi lam http://cenblog.org/2008/07/02/how-many-people-does-it-take-to-make-a-buckyball/comment-page-1/#comment-7227 cyndi lam Sun, 09 Nov 2008 12:03:38 +0000 http://cenblog.org/2008/07/02/how-many-people-does-it-take-to-make-a-buckyball/#comment-7227 hello how do you make 60 pcs of triangle shape. Can you give me the measurement. hello how do you make 60 pcs of triangle shape. Can you give me the measurement.

]]> By: richard edison http://cenblog.org/2008/07/02/how-many-people-does-it-take-to-make-a-buckyball/comment-page-1/#comment-1907 richard edison Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:58:30 +0000 http://cenblog.org/2008/07/02/how-many-people-does-it-take-to-make-a-buckyball/#comment-1907 I can think of no greater affront to the ancient art of origami.~,:^0 I can think of no greater affront to the ancient art of origami.~,:^0

]]> By: Origami de um fulereno http://cenblog.org/2008/07/02/how-many-people-does-it-take-to-make-a-buckyball/comment-page-1/#comment-1896 Origami de um fulereno Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:35:15 +0000 http://cenblog.org/2008/07/02/how-many-people-does-it-take-to-make-a-buckyball/#comment-1896 [...] Via CENtral [...] [...] Via CENtral [...]

]]> By: David Bradley http://cenblog.org/2008/07/02/how-many-people-does-it-take-to-make-a-buckyball/comment-page-1/#comment-1872 David Bradley Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:20:55 +0000 http://cenblog.org/2008/07/02/how-many-people-does-it-take-to-make-a-buckyball/#comment-1872 Oh definitely...in the same way that we have issues with turnips and swedes in the UK depending on whether one is in the north or the south. But, saying that although Brits call soccer football, we also call it soccer, so there would only be confusion if they'd been called footballanes, because those Stateside would assume it was a point ovoid rather than a sphere. Happy 4th July by the way! Oh definitely…in the same way that we have issues with turnips and swedes in the UK depending on whether one is in the north or the south. But, saying that although Brits call soccer football, we also call it soccer, so there would only be confusion if they’d been called footballanes, because those Stateside would assume it was a point ovoid rather than a sphere.

Happy 4th July by the way!

]]> By: Aaron Rowe http://cenblog.org/2008/07/02/how-many-people-does-it-take-to-make-a-buckyball/comment-page-1/#comment-1863 Aaron Rowe Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:58:43 +0000 http://cenblog.org/2008/07/02/how-many-people-does-it-take-to-make-a-buckyball/#comment-1863 Hurray! Video comes to the Chemical and Engineering News blog. Hurray! Video comes to the Chemical and Engineering News blog.

]]> By: Carmen Drahl http://cenblog.org/2008/07/02/how-many-people-does-it-take-to-make-a-buckyball/comment-page-1/#comment-1862 Carmen Drahl Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:18:28 +0000 http://cenblog.org/2008/07/02/how-many-people-does-it-take-to-make-a-buckyball/#comment-1862 @Luis-You're right. a geodesic dome is more of an almost-sphere, though a geodesic sphere needn't have 60 vertices. Just look at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaceship_Earth_" rel="nofollow">Spaceship Earth</a> at Epcot Center in Disney World. If we really want to get down to particulars, my understanding is that the first dome that could be called "geodesic" wasn't designed by Fuller. @David-I think [60]soccerane might have run into a bit of the football/futbol/soccer naming issues, personally.... @Luis-You’re right. a geodesic dome is more of an almost-sphere, though a geodesic sphere needn’t have 60 vertices. Just look at Spaceship Earth at Epcot Center in Disney World.
If we really want to get down to particulars, my understanding is that the first dome that could be called “geodesic” wasn’t designed by Fuller.

@David-I think [60]soccerane might have run into a bit of the football/futbol/soccer naming issues, personally….

]]> By: David Bradley http://cenblog.org/2008/07/02/how-many-people-does-it-take-to-make-a-buckyball/comment-page-1/#comment-1861 David Bradley Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:07:46 +0000 http://cenblog.org/2008/07/02/how-many-people-does-it-take-to-make-a-buckyball/#comment-1861 When Kroto and colleagues were first trying to figure out what structure a molecule with just 60 carbon atoms might take, legend has it that it took a colleague in mathematics to point out that a truncated icosahedron had spherical symmetry and sixty vertices like a conventional hexagons and pentagons football (soccerball for US readers). Of course, Sir Harry himself likened the structure to one of the geodesic designs of Richard Buckminster Fuller and of course that name became fullerene/buckyball. It really ought to have been called [60]soccerane...just a thought. The BBC documentary even tried to have the team piecing together hexagons and pentagons in the same way that Watson and Crick pieced together DNA, but I presume that was merely artistic license as once they knew it was soccerball shaped piecing it together would have been trivial. Still a fantastic discovery that has given us chemistry writers metaphorical fodder for years now. db When Kroto and colleagues were first trying to figure out what structure a molecule with just 60 carbon atoms might take, legend has it that it took a colleague in mathematics to point out that a truncated icosahedron had spherical symmetry and sixty vertices like a conventional hexagons and pentagons football (soccerball for US readers). Of course, Sir Harry himself likened the structure to one of the geodesic designs of Richard Buckminster Fuller and of course that name became fullerene/buckyball. It really ought to have been called [60]soccerane…just a thought.

The BBC documentary even tried to have the team piecing together hexagons and pentagons in the same way that Watson and Crick pieced together DNA, but I presume that was merely artistic license as once they knew it was soccerball shaped piecing it together would have been trivial.

Still a fantastic discovery that has given us chemistry writers metaphorical fodder for years now.

db

]]> By: rob http://cenblog.org/2008/07/02/how-many-people-does-it-take-to-make-a-buckyball/comment-page-1/#comment-1853 rob Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:40:52 +0000 http://cenblog.org/2008/07/02/how-many-people-does-it-take-to-make-a-buckyball/#comment-1853 The nature paper is free at http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v318/n6042/pdf/318162a0.pdf The nature paper is free at http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v318/n6042/pdf/318162a0.pdf

]]> By: Luis Brudna http://cenblog.org/2008/07/02/how-many-people-does-it-take-to-make-a-buckyball/comment-page-1/#comment-1851 Luis Brudna Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:01:38 +0000 http://cenblog.org/2008/07/02/how-many-people-does-it-take-to-make-a-buckyball/#comment-1851 The first video is the same structure as C60?! I guess that is different. --- C60: Buckminsterfullerene * Kroto, H. W., Heath, J. R., O'Brien, S. C., Curl, R. F & Smalley, R. E. * Nature 318, 162–163 (14 November 1985) * doi:10.1038/318162a0 The first video is the same structure as C60?! I guess that is different.
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C60: Buckminsterfullerene
* Kroto, H. W., Heath, J. R., O’Brien, S. C., Curl, R. F & Smalley, R. E.
* Nature 318, 162–163 (14 November 1985)
* doi:10.1038/318162a0

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