A Buckyegg Breaks Pentagon Rules 137
Roland Piquepaille writes "Chemists from Virginia and California have cooked a soup of fullerenes which produced an improbable buckyegg. The egg-shaped structure of their 'buckyballs' was a complete surprise for the researchers. In fact, they wanted to trap some atoms of terbium in a buckyball "to make compounds that could be both medically useful and well-tolerated in the body." And they obtained a buckyegg which both violates some chemistry laws and the FIFA soccer laws which were used until the last World Cup. Read more for additional references and a picture of this buckyegg carrying metal molecules."
Wha? (Score:5, Insightful)
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I'm sure that's not an easy thing to do given Slashdot's high standards. Usually, the confusion is often just bafflement over why it was posted in the first place.
Also, I've ignored Roland so long that I didn't realize he's posting for ZDNet now. I lost hope for Slashdot's editorial staff, I guess I really can't count on ZD to keep the riffraff editors away from them either.
Re:Wha? (Score:5, Informative)
I was only confused until I realized that the Pentagon in the heading was the shape, not the structure/organization. Then it all made much, much more sense.
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Indeed, neat story, terrible Slashdot writeup. If they had said: A Buckyegg Breaks the "Adjacent Pentagon Rule", it would have been much less confusing.
And I couldn't figure out what the heck world cup soccer had to do with buckyballs until I read the fine article, either.
Sometimes, I think the editors post these things just to make people so thoroughly confused that they'll click the article. Makes me wonder if they get a kickback from ads on the article page or something. :-D
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Re:Wha? (Score:4, Funny)
That much bureaucratic inertia could slow Earth's rotation and really tear up the weather.
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Do not click that link at the end! (Score:5, Informative)
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- RG>
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Sometimes two or even three of them.
The days of linking directly to the actual source article are gone.
SimCity 2000 (Score:5, Funny)
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I feel so dump (Score:5, Interesting)
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What does being mute have to do with the ability to spell?
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I thought hackers and nerds were reknowned for their thirst for knowledge; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fullerenes [wikipedia.org]
C'mon; you couldn't even be bothered to look it up in wikipedia?
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Unless you graduated University before Fullerenes were discovered.
Jackass.
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All you have to do is balance the positive and negative energies in yourself so that you stop felling the need to understand the summary.
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Buckyegg: (Score:1)
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"A. Buckyegg Breaks Pentagon Rules"
Nice... (Score:5, Insightful)
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More interested about their experiements to put certain metals in buckyeyes for medical scanning. So is the idea of putting radioacti
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Cheers.
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Lame even for Roland the Plogger (Score:2)
Even for Roland the Plogger, this is lame. Does he pay Slashdot to let him through, or what?
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Am I the only who chuckled... (Score:5, Funny)
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Hey, leave Beavers alone, they are Canada's national animal. Though not sure what that means now?
Pentagon rules? (Score:1)
My understanding... (Score:5, Interesting)
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Certainly possible (IANAOC either) but I'm actually thinking this could also have implications for string theory (a horrible misnomer IMNSHO) if there is no charge as the deformation could then only be explained by the chemically uninvolved contents of the Bucky-egg.
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The cage carries a 6- charge.
How would I know? see my other reply....
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Considering the shape of these tubes, I wonder why an egg-s
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Shit that isn't a link. <a href="http://www.whateverthefuck.com/buttfuck/your ass.html">Link Text Goes Here.</a> More shit that isn't a link.
Which will look like this on the page (but in the normal font):
Shit that isn't a link. Link Text Goes Here. [whateverthefuck.com] More shit that isn't a link.
See? Now wasn't that easy? In fact, wasn't that less extra typing than your la
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Re:My understanding... (iaaoc) (Score:1, Insightful)
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It's more to do with the angles those bonds are forced to take on by the structure. Having the other elements within the cage will allow different angles to occur.
Also, I think it's more likely that the chemists involved are inorganic.
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Non carbon based-chemists? linky plz!
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Charge is not determined merely by the number of bonds/bonded atoms but by the number of lone electrons.
Sure, carbon typically makes four bonds (e.g. methane [CH4] and carbon dioxide [O=C=O]), but uncharged carbon species exist with fewer bonds. For example, carbon radicals, such as the STABLE triphenylmethyl radical (see, e.g., http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/295/556 1/1846 [sciencemag.org]
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So any clarifications straight from the horse's mouth would be greatly appreciated.
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How will you go about finding out?
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Time will tell. But thanks for the question!
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The title is confusing... (Score:1, Troll)
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If you add another terbium atom (Score:4, Funny)
Munchies (Score:3, Funny)
Finally! (Score:5, Funny)
nano tubes (Score:3, Interesting)
Can't wait for the bucky chicken! (Score:5, Funny)
Direct link to story (Score:5, Informative)
Am I one of the few that at least sorta understood (Score:1)
Just so you know, no I didn't RTFA. Oh ya, and I can't guarantee anybody will understand this (even the people that know what buckyballs are) since I'm by no means a chemist, physicist, etc, and therefore there is a good chance I haven't got a clue what I'm talking about... you have been warned...
Am I one of the few that at least sorta understood?
Just myself being a nerd and having one day randomly stumbled upon "Buckyballs" (Buckminsterfullerene [wikipedia.org] - and this was actually before Wikipedia). If I remember
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I first learned about buckyballs in my college chem classes back in 98 or 99 so I thought this article was actually pretty interesting.
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ain't really laws then are they? (Score:1)
I think they'd be better off calling them "hypothesis" or "theories" then since they obviously aren't "laws"...
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Or maybe you need a dictionary (Score:1)
Stupid title, summary, and link... (Score:1, Offtopic)
Unpredictable (Score:1)
article link & text (Score:1, Informative)
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Improbable "Buckyegg" Hatched
September 28, 2006
graphic: purple and blue balls inside an egg-shaped structure
Buckyegg (Christine Beavers/graphic)
An egg-shaped fullerene, or "buckyball egg" has been made and characterized by chemists at UC Davis, Virginia Tech and Emory and Henry College, Va. The unexpected discovery opens new possibilities for structures for
How stable is this? (Score:3, Interesting)
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Aside from that, well, the point of carbon bonds is that they're stable, yeah? So it's like asking if you can do a lot of tricks with a rock laying on the ground. The answer is, "not so many."
Unless it's a pet rock, in which case it can "stay!" pretty good.
Old news? (Score:1)
http://www.sciforums.com/showthread.php?t=48 [sciforums.com] dated 11-22-00, 10:15 PM. Just Google for 'buckyballs Breaks Pentagon Rules' ... ;-]
Funny thing is that searching Google News for 'buckyballs Breaks Pentagon Rules' has the link http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=368 [zdnet.com] (Slashdotted?) mentioned in the article as its one and only result.
Oops, WTF is that?! (Score:2)
...and then this happens. Back to the drawing-board, guys!
I guess that's the nature of science, though - it's the surprises that are most interesting.
Nice picture. (Score:2)
An appropriate response.. (Score:1)
First you have a very informative title, which got me wondering what kind of assasin/agent/geek would call himself buckyballs and annoy the Pentagon.
Then I got hit by this Jewel:
Chemists from Virginia and California have cooked a soup of fullerenes which produced an improbable buckyegg.
and I felt like a new man. There's a name for this kind of catch-phrase whoring, I just can't remember it right now.
Then I realised it wasn't over yet. submitter was just getting warmed up. Fifa, eg
Sounds like Nanotech (Score:1)
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What do you think they'll be useful for? (Score:2)
Let's review the letter "S" (Score:3, Informative)
"pentagon rule" is a rule about pentagon shapes.
"Editor" is a person who knows the difference.
WTF? (Score:2)
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Breaking the pentagram releases the demons! (Score:1)
They should be called 'Cluckyballs' (Score:1)
Usefulness (Score:2)
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