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- From: kniaz@sol1.lrsm.upenn.edu (Chris Kniaz -Fischer)
- Newsgroups: sci.chem
- Subject: Re: Bucky things
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- Date: 19 Nov 92 23:03:38 GMT
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- In article <sundermm.66.0@columbia.dsu.edu> sundermm@columbia.dsu.edu (MARC SUNDERMEYER) writes:
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- > What ever did they accomplish with the Bucky Bunny which didn't spin, is
- >it a basis for the bucky onions perhaps?
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- According to Rick Smalley (who gave a talk at Penn) carbon chemists
- new about onions for a long time (he even showed slides with pictures
- from some old papers), they seem to be ultimate form of bucky
- tubes. As I remembered someone did some calculations, turns out
- onions are very stable...
-
- More interesting are bucky tubes. If you dope them with
- Rubidium they give X-ray spectrum similar to graphite-Rb, moreover
- they molecural formula is identical to the long known
- graphite compound RbC8 and they also squize like graphite intercal.
- compound! Why not call them graphite then...
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