Perfect Symmetry: The Accidental Discovery of Buckminsterfullerene by Jim Baggott
Perfect Symmetry: The Accidental Discovery of Buckminsterfullerene

Jim Baggott

Perfect Symmetry: The Accidental Discovery of Buckminsterfullerene

Jim Baggott

328 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction informative medium-paced
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This book tells the fascinating story of the discovery of buckminsterfullerene, a perfectly symmetrical soccer-ball shaped molecule composed of 60 carbon atoms. This new molecule, one of a large family of carbon cage molecules called "fullerenes"-...

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