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Buckyball fullerene from neodymium supermagnet spheres

MAGNET SALE AT MR. GEORGE! http://www.supermagnetman.net/... He's got 8mm sp1000 spheres for $0.30, sp0701 silver for $0.34See http://amasci.com/amateur/neos... Here's the trick to rapidly assembling a buckyball from sixty supermagnet beads.Note that this isn't a true Buckminster Fullerene, since magnets are dipoles while carbon atoms are quadrupoles. True buckyballs have hexagons and pentagons, while ours has squares and is slightly smaller. The big challenge: start with two pentagons, then assemble two hemispheres. (This is how it happens in nature.) Then knit the two hemispheres seamlessly together, trapping a glass marble or other gigantic ionized metal atom within. It's harder than it looks!

Channel: Science & Technology
Uploaded: March 14, 2008 at 7:58 pm
Author: wbeaty

Length: 01:49
Rating: 4.63
Views: 44478

Tags: amasci  beads  neo  neodymium  physics  puzzle  science  sphere  spheres  supermagnet  supermagnets  

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