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The Story of the Buckyball Our story starts off with stars in space The Sun is a Star – Our Star Our Earth goes round the Sun One day many millions of years into the future the Sun will blow up aaaaghhh!!! Ouch! it’s There are lots and lots and lots of stars like our Sun in space In fact there are about ten thousand million million million stars in Space We can write this in numbers as 10 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 10 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 1 followed by 22 noughts (or zeros) We can write 10 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 as 1022 is a very number There are 10 dots here ………, 100 ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, 1000 ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, This is only 1000 so… is really really On this screen there are only 1024 x 768 = pixels Less than 1 million < 106 On this screen there are only 1024 x 768 = 786432 pixels Less than 1 million < 106 Now lets think about something that is very Very small a molecule We are all made out of very tiny molecules Molecules are bundles of very tiny atoms Carbon atoms C Nitrogen atoms N Oxygen atoms O Hydrogen atoms H …mainly The water molecule, H2O, has two Hydrogen atoms and one Oxygen atom O H H and it is very very very small In a glass of water there are about a million million million million water molecules 1000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 =1024 Where did our atoms come from? All your atoms were made a very long time ago inside a star a bit like our Sun That star exploded millions of years ago and blew your atoms into space They floated around in space for millions of years and ended up here TODAY So we all came from outer space We are all aliens We tried to create a bit of a very very hot star in our laboratory lens With a magnifying glass and Sunlight you can burn a hole in a piece of wood Sun’s Rays laser We used a laser instead of the Sun and Graphite like the lead in a pencil graphite clusters of 60 atoms formed We decided that the 60 carbon atoms were stuck together to form a cage with the same pattern as a soccer ball o o o o o o C60: Buckminsterfullerene The Earth is 100,000,000 times larger than a soccerball 107m 10-1m 10-9m 108 108 and a soccerball is 100,000,000 x larger than a Buckyball o 12 Pentagons on a Soccer Ball 12 x 5 = 60 corners