The Story of the Buckyball Our story starts
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
HOT
There are lots and lots of stars like our Sun in space
In fact there about ten thousand million stars in Space
We can write this in numbers as 10 000 000
10 000 000 1 followed by 22 noughts (or zeros)
We can write 10 000 000 as 1022
22 10
is a very
BIG number
There are 10 dots here ………,
This is only 1000 so…
22 10
is really
really
BIG
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, H 2 O, has two Hydrogen atoms and one Oxygen atom O H H
and it is very small
In a glass of water there about a million water molecules
1000 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 you should be very
happy
So we all came from outer space We are all aliens
We tried to create a bit of a 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
C 60: Buckminsterfullerene
The Earth is 100, 000 times larger than a soccerball 107 m 10 -1 m 10 -9 m 108 and a soccerball is 100, 000 x larger than a Buckyball
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12 Pentagons on a Soccer Ball 12 x 5 = 60 corners
An Australian Fly
An Australian Fly
An Australian Fly
Algebra
Euler’s Law Faces + Corners – Edges = 2
The Cube
Cube Faces Corners Edges
A Pyramid
F=
Now you are going to make a model of C 60 the Buckyball
School Arts/Science project
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