Transcript C60DiscSimple

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
There are
lots and lots and lots
of stars like our Sun in space
In fact there are about
ten thousand
million
million
million
stars in Space
We can write this in numbers
as
10 000 000 000 000 000 000 000
10 000 000 000 000 000 000 000
1
followed by
22 noughts (or zeros)
We can write
10 000 000 000 000 000 000 000
as
1022
is a very
number
There are 10 dots here
………,
100
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1000
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This is only
1000
so…
is really
really
On this screen there
are only
1024 x 768 =
pixels
Less than 1 million
< 106
On this screen there
are only
1024 x 768 =
786432
pixels
Less than 1 million
< 106
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, H2O, has
two Hydrogen atoms
and
one Oxygen atom
O
H
H
and
it
is
very
very
very
small
In a glass of water
there are about
a million million million million
water molecules
1000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000
=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 we all came from outer space
We are all aliens
We tried to create
a bit of a
very 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
o
o
o
C60: Buckminsterfullerene
The Earth is
100,000,000
times larger
than a
soccerball
107m
10-1m
10-9m
108
108
and a
soccerball is
100,000,000
x larger than
a Buckyball
o
12 Pentagons on a Soccer Ball
12 x 5 = 60 corners