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- From: ladasky@netcom.com (John J. Ladasky II)
- Subject: Re: Buckminster Fullerenes
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.221127.24240@netcom.com>
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 22:11:27 GMT
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- dlmedli@snll-arpagw.llnl.gov (medlin douglas l) writes:
- >[stuff deleted]
- >Also at this talk Dr. Tendaloo presented some SEM pictures and electron
- >diffraction patterns of crystals of what they called conical graphite-
- >these were crystals that looked like little cones- and are formed
- >by the graphite sheet having a defect of a pentagonal (rather than
- >hexagonal) carbon ring that causes the graphite sheet to distort into
- >a cone.
-
- Check out an article from one of the latest issues of _Nature_
- (sorry, I can't tell you the exact issue - one of my fellow employees has
- snagged it from the library). Some recent studies suggest that those
- pentagonal rings you called "defects" are in fact a necessary stabilizing
- factor in carbon crystalization - when there are not other compounds
- present to bind the "loose ends" of planar graphite sheets.
-
- Another netter just recently mentioned this same article. It
- discusses the "bucky onions" which will probably be a hot topic soon.
-
- >Doug Medlin
- >dlmedli@snll-arpagw.llnl.gov
-
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- == John J. Ladasky II ("ii") ========================= ladasky@netcom.COM ==
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- they steal." - John Ladasky ~ - dancing about architecture."
- (quote stolen from Stravinsky, who o o - Elvis Costello? Laurie
- stole it from a statement made by > Anderson? Frank Zappa?
- Pablo Picasso about painting, who \_/ -------------------------------
- stole it from...) "Property is theft." - Groucho
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