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Friday, September 3, 2010

25th anniversary of BuckyBall







 



After 12 O'clock the Google “O”
converted into a buckyball and the google doodle informs that its 25th
anniversary of buckyball. The buckyball logo is spinning on the homepage
of google search engine .In the mid of Google logo a yellow ball
appears and then creates a buckyball. Buckyball are also amazing desktoy
which keeps you busy and entertained.




buckyballAccording to the website Nerdum
you can get your answer that “what are buckyballs find out here.The
site states NASA’s Spitzer Telescope has discovered what astronomers
call buckyballs in space for the first time.

Buckyballs, also called Fullerenes, are carbon molecules arranged in a
spherical shape with geometric patterns similar to those found on soccer
balls. They are named after architect Buckminster Fuller and his
geodesic dome designs (think the giant golf ball at Epcot in Orlando,
FL).



Buckyballs and quantum dots are two nanotools useful in medicine. A
bucky- ball is a soccer ball-shaped molecule that’s 1 nanometer wide.



The Doctors could use buckyballs and quantum dots in gene therapy to send genes into human cells.


So google dedicated its google doodle today for Buckyball

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