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  6. Date:         Thu, 28 Jan 1993 11:02:30 +0100
  7. Sender:       List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works
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  9. From:         Solan <solan@MATH.UIO.NO>
  10. Subject:      Quote of the week
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  13. In New York Review, Dec. 3 1992; A-Symmetry by Martin Gardner is
  14. quoted from Golubitsky:
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  16. "A new form of the element carbon, known as "Buckminsterfullerene"
  17. after the famous architect, has recently been discovered: it has 60
  18. carbon atoms, arranged at the vertices of a truncated icosahedron.
  19. Although designed to human specification, it's proving unusually
  20. stable, and is believed to exist naturally in interstellar space."
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  22. Solan
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