Buckyball Google doodle to celebrate 25 years since the Fullerene was discovered
Posted on 04. Sep, 2010 by SemjonovNikita18 in Technology
Buckyball Google doodle for today in order to celebrate 25 years since the Fullerene was discovered. In case you don’t know what a Buckyball is you might want to check out the Fullerene page on Wikipedia.
Acording to the wiki page “A fullerene is any molecule composed entirely of carbon, in the form of a hollow sphere, ellipsoid, or tube. Spherical fullerenes are also called buckyballs, and cylindrical ones are called carbon nanotubes or buckytubes.”
This time Google surprised its users with a new custom logo but this time maintains its original design but the second “O” becomes a Buckyball with which we can interact by turning it around.
The new logo has been developed to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the discovery of buckminsterfullerene by the scientific community.
The fullerenes are the third most stable form of carbon after diamond and graphite. The first fullerene was discovered in 1985 and have become popular among chemists, both for its structural beauty and for its versatility for the synthesis of new compounds, as presented in the form of spheres, ellipsoids or cylinders.
The best known fullerene is the buckminsterfullerene. It is the smallest fullerene with 60 carbon atoms (C60), in which none of the pentagons share an edge component.
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