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Buckminsterfullerene #11 red white

Buckminsterfullerene #11 red white

Buckminsterfullerene is a form (allotrope) of carbon. Sixty carbon atoms are arranged in a sphere (actually at the vertices of a truncated icosahedron). Fullerenes have rather exotic properties and these hollow balls of carbon atoms are likely to have many uses.
Illustration ID: BUCKY-11_red_white
copyright Russell Kightley
Illustration size: 64.0 Mpixels (183 MB uncompressed) - 8000x8000 pixels (26.6x26.6 in / 67.7x67.7 cm at 300 ppi)
Illustration keywords: allotrope, atom, atomic, ball, Buckminsterfullerene, bucky, buckyball, C, C60, carbon, chemical, chemistry, fullerene, Fullerenes, molecular, molecule
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