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- From: mjohnson@cco.caltech.edu (Mary L. Johnson)
- Newsgroups: sci.engr.chem,sci.materials,sci.chem
- Subject: Re: Buckminster Fullerenes
- Date: 18 Nov 1992 18:32:23 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- References: <sundermm.60.0@columbia.dsu.edu> <1992Nov15.163955.26693@athena.mit.edu> <351@snll-arpagw.llnl.gov>
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- Summary: Crystals
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- sundermm@columbia.dsu.edu (MARC SUNDERMEYER) writes:
- >
- > I have always heard of and seen the chemical structures of the new
- >Buckminster Fullerenes, but hat does the actual substance look like if you
- >were to have a handfull of it? (Any of the types, not just C60.)
-
- There's an article on C60 crystals in the latest Journal of Crystal
- Growth (Agafonov et al, volume 123, pages 366-372): C60 grown
- from n-hexane forms decagonal (10-sided) columns with hollow centers.
-
- -- Dr. Mary L. Johnson
- mjohnson@alumni.cco.caltech.edu
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