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  Re: Stellated Buckminsterfullerene (15KB)  
From: Bob Hughes
Date: 11 Jul 2000 10:49:47
Message: <396b340b@news.povray.org>
"Tor Olav Kristensen" <tor### [at] onlineno> wrote in message
news:396A804A.FC25AB36@online.no...
|
| not sure about the exact definition of
| a Bucky ball, I did not.
|
| I believe it has something to do with
| the C60 molecule.
|
| Any chemistry people out there that knows ?

Pretty sure that's the slang term for it anyhow.  Your rendering has the
general shapes needed to be one but there are extra facets also, which is why
I said "enhanced" just to be saying something.  I really don't know much about
the chemistry of it, even though I once had a college course and managed an
"A" grade.  I'd have to say that this is probably no longer any sort of C

Bob


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