Goldenballs!
From Seattle pi.com : -
Scientists at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland and at the University of Nebraska report in today's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that they have discovered hollow molecular structures made of pure gold -- golden buckyballs.
Carbon buckyballs, hollow spheres made of 60 carbon atoms and named for the geodesic dome designed by Buckminster Fuller, were discovered in the early 1980s. Originally known as buckminsterfullerenes (today, technically, just as fullerenes), buckyballs became the third known natural form of pure carbon after diamond and graphite
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Scientists at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland and at the University of Nebraska report in today's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that they have discovered hollow molecular structures made of pure gold -- golden buckyballs.
Carbon buckyballs, hollow spheres made of 60 carbon atoms and named for the geodesic dome designed by Buckminster Fuller, were discovered in the early 1980s. Originally known as buckminsterfullerenes (today, technically, just as fullerenes), buckyballs became the third known natural form of pure carbon after diamond and graphite
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