Buckminsterfullerene
File sealed
The detectives are still writing this one up. The poster and the facts are below; the film and the interrogation room open soon.
Booking photographs
The suspect, from its real atomic coordinates. Drag to turn it. Height chart in nanometers, ruled every 0.05 nm. A soccer ball is about three hundred million times wider.
Rap sheet
- Answers to
- Buckyball. Also C60.
- Height
- 0.7 nm, whichever way up.
- Weight
- 1.2 zeptograms
- Build
- Sixty carbons in a hollow ball: 12 pentagons, 20 hexagons.
- Color
- Deep purple, dissolved.
- Habits
- Squeezed hard enough, it turns into superhard diamond.
- Associates
- Starlight. Out in space, it dims some colors of it.
- Suspected
- Of hiding in candle soot. Reported there, never counted.
- Name
- After an architect famous for geodesic domes.
- Last seen
- A 5 mL tube marked SEA AIR in the fridge at HQ.
of them in a breath of Mediterranean sea air, on average.
You’ve never seen one.
The poster on the street
This is the photocopied wanted poster for Buckminsterfullerene, No. 62. They were made for noticeboards around Boston, Cambridge and the rest of the east coast.
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