Feel rule needs changing about new carbon molecule

Usage examples of fullerene.

It was a buckyball, a carbon fullerene molecule, the half-living, half-machine building-brick of the Chaga.

He had dragged it out of storage six days ago, and found to his surprise that it still functioned once he had cannibalized the now-useless new radio for its fullerene batteries.

The fullerenes created during those impacts sometimes trapped atoms from the original cometary material inside their lattice structures, so that when you took the fullerene apart, inside it you would have a little piece of that original cometary material.

Crusher turned away, looking at the fullerene rotating, planetlike, on her screen.

At a preprogrammed height above ground, which is determined by radar altimeters in each sub-projectile, the Indowy containment field releases a burst of anti-protons into the fullerene matrix which then sustains a rapid chain reaction.

Ten minutes later I was walking across town, past all the UN checkpoints and security points, with a vial of Chaga fullerenes slid into my vagina.

They think these fullerenes will give the edge to their industries, make the economy indestructible.

And a couple centuries ago, on Earth anyway, came the first detections of fullerenes in impact craters from meteorites and comet fragments.

When the forensics team was done sweeping the pirate vessel, there was a fairly high incidence of fullerenes found on its hull.

Venus, our folk are already delivering to your vessel phials of drugs, fabrics, and the tubular fullerenes we know your folk especially prize.

Small craft were now truly small, fullerene constructions no bigger than a few millimeters across when furled, built by even smaller machines and powered by exotic transuranium batteries.

Zafir was an expert in these little carbon geodesic spheres called buckminsterfullerenes, and he waxed enthusiastic: "Temperatures and pressures in the west Tharsis zone of the fall turned out to be similar to those used in the arc-reactor-synthesis method of making fullerenes, and so there's a hundred-kilometer stretch out there where the carbon on the bottom side of the cable consists almost entirely of buckyballs.

Combining this with the suitable use of a benzene solvent, an almost-pure mixture of fullerenes was formed.

Like lasers in 1965, five years after the first one was built, fullerenes seem to be a solution waiting for a problem.

And like lasers, fullerenes will almost certainly become enormously valuable technological tools in the next thirty years.