Buckyball: Tiny Carbon Soccer Balls

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In 1985, scientists discovered that 60 carbon atoms could join up to form one big soccer ball shape: a buckyball! It’s a strange little molecule.
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Sources:
Carbon history: www.caer.uky.edu/carbon/histor...
C60: www.chm.bris.ac.uk/motm/buckyb...
• Buckyballs (C60) - Per...
www.3rd1000.com/bucky/bucky.htm
scifun.chem.wisc.edu/chemweek/...
tech.mit.edu/V121/N49/Buckybal...
Superdiamond: www.anl.gov/articles/scientist...
Discovery:www.acs.org/content/dam/acsor...
Nobel Prize: www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prize...
Uses: www.scientificamerican.com/art...
Buckyball solid: www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2012/...
Cancer bomb: www.science20.com/news_article...

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@StuartSafford 9 лет назад

"It does nothing in particular and does it very well." Great quote.

@rosalyn6344 4 года назад

🤦🏽‍♂️

@bunyabunyatv853 4 года назад

it does so much itll take small minds (like yours) twenty five years to find out what....

@thefitnessgrampacertest9057 3 года назад

my life, except the ‘does very well’ part.

@gabrielgomesbrito 9 лет назад

My father was a blackbelt in karate and I only found out after I was 15 years old. I confirm, it was quite a shock.

@dagothur7171 6 лет назад

Doctor BrainTaser you mean he was a benzene ring

@SilentEire 9 лет назад

This is the one of the very rare occasions were scientists actually give something a cool name. Buckyball's, buckybomb's. Are you kidding me?!? XD

@seigeengine 9 лет назад

Conor Kinsella I prefer buckminsterfullerene. Buckyballs sound silly, but buckminsterfullerene ain't got time for your shit.

@grug1343 3 года назад

@@seigeengine yea, i feel bad for Bucky's balls

@sirevilmustache9567 9 лет назад

Science: When in doubt, shoot lasers at it.

@SketchAndEtch 9 лет назад

Sir Evilmustache Actually it's sort of a "tried and true method" for random discoveries by now. Lately we "sort-of-kinda-by-accident-almost-maybe" (to be confirmed) sent some photons into "warps speed" by shooting a laser at an experiemtnal space propulsion engine type because some researchers just fancied the idea at the time

@cortster12 9 лет назад

SketchAndEtch I heard it as well, but nothing official as of yet.

@geniusmp2001 9 лет назад

Sir Evilmustache The funny part? When they were invented, lasers were called "a solution looking for a problem". Yeah, you could make coherent light. So what? What could you do with it? Turns out, basically all the things.

@cortster12 9 лет назад

Matthew Prorok I call lasers the Swiss army knife of the scientific world.

@SketchAndEtch 9 лет назад

Jeremy Smith Well, atm it's neither "true" or"untrue" since we don't really understand what happened back there. All we know is that photons acted in a way they weren't supposed to, and that's about it. A lot of further research and stuff will be requiret to understand what that really was and why did it happen.

@likenem 9 лет назад

FIGHTING CANCER WITH EXPLOSIONS! TORGUE APPROVES!

@zeppie_ 9 лет назад

likenem TESTOSTERONE!!!

@ArchAngelSlayer1 9 лет назад

likenem Yeah, no more radiation.... Lasers are for pussies.

@SirMoohsAlot 9 лет назад

likenem Made my day!

@alexandermorin9627 9 лет назад

likenem WE HERE AT THE TORGUE THINK THIS IS FUCKING AWESOME!

@likenem 9 лет назад

Cow17 You and every one who thumbs upped did too . I wasn't sure if the borderlands community crossed over with the Scishow Community.

@Lttlemoi 9 лет назад

_doctor_: I'm sorry to inform you miss, that you have cancer. _patient_: Oh noes? Is there anything you can do to help me? _doctor_: *_holding a stick of what appears to be dynamite_* No worries miss, we can blast the cancer out of you in no time.

@josephfox9221 9 лет назад

Lttlemoi I love explosions, perhaps I should go into medcine

@Tennyson999 9 лет назад

Michael Bay's dream hospital

@SteevyTable 9 лет назад

Lttlemoi So apparently there really is no problem that cannot be solved with the proper application of explosives.

@DavidStudiosproduct 9 лет назад

Lttlemoi Hope no cool guys look at them explosions!

@monkeyneil578 9 лет назад

눈 ͜ಎ눈 filthy weabist Cancer Curing Hospital staring Megan fox Direacted by Michacl Bay coming to a theater near you *"the new cure came in with a bang"*

@mattapplepie 9 лет назад

Every time he said buckyball I just thought about Captain Americas sidekick! Still an interesting episode even if I knew most of the science already, the history stuff was interesting!

@osaydb 9 лет назад

Matt Appleton same here bro

@MsSqueashy 9 лет назад

I'm with you guys till the end of the line

@Gkkiux 9 лет назад

Matt Appleton I thought of the neodymium magnet brand. Weird

@ninjaturtletyke55555 9 лет назад

Matt Appleton I kept thinking of One piece when he said buckyball. Bucky the Pirate and his highly explosive buckyball.

@LightningSe7en 9 лет назад

Squeashy No likes for the movie line reference? These people are scrubs.

@Zerepzerreitug 9 лет назад

Attacking cancer cells with nano explosions? when did Michael Bay got a title in medicine?

@MBogdos96 9 лет назад

1:59 60 Carbon atoms with 12 protons each. Pretty sure Carbon only has 6 protons. Maybe you meant nucleons?

@MysticKenji2 9 лет назад

MBogdos96 Yeah, he definitely meant nucleons.

@FlyingJetpack1 9 лет назад

MBogdos96 He most likely ment the atomic mass number

@Solardarity 9 лет назад

FlyingJetpack1 yeah, when he quoted the number 720, he was referring to the molecular weight of C60, and 12 the molecular weight of each carbon atom. Slight typo on the show.

@FlyingJetpack1 9 лет назад

***** Someone didn't get their full sleep in the office of scishow. My teacher will whip us if we will make such a mistake (It can really cost a test >_

@MBogdos96 9 лет назад

FlyingJetpack1 You mean mass number, right?

@jacobpetersen4038 8 лет назад

"I have good news and bad news, which do you want to hear first?" "The good news." "Well, I can't explain the good news before saying the bad news, so here goes. You have a tumor, but it is treatable." "How will you treat it? Chemo? Surgery?" "No. We're going to blow it up."

@DeadCreativity 9 лет назад

Winter Soldier Ball: Explosive, partially synthetic, and previously named Bucky.

@iknowitalljacob2396 9 лет назад

As soon as I saw the thumbnail, I though fullerene: C2 chemistry. Somebody's been doing their revision 😄

@okaykatieokay 9 лет назад

Too bad the exam was last week. My teacher never really covered this stuff very well.

@joshf607 6 лет назад

Cambridge a-level chemistry lol

@TrishTruitt 7 лет назад

This was excellent! I've read about fullerenes for a while but no one broke it all down like this.

@daymeinvines1699 9 лет назад

Although I knew a lot about buckyballs. You guys still provide fun facts and more knowledge for me! I love it!

@TypeVertigo 9 лет назад

Nice video. I had first heard about buckyballs in an old issue of Newsweek around 20 years ago and was curious that it hadn't been talked much about since, being overtaken by carbon fiber and graphene in terms of hype. This is a good reminder. Thanks!

@RainaRamsay 9 лет назад

"Researchers call them Buckybombs" because of course they do.

@jasonadler2668 9 лет назад

For the past 10 years this molecule has been my favorite. Crazy properties and awesome name

@Ikeduro 9 лет назад

Great episode as always!

@coloraturaElise 6 лет назад

Gilbert and Sullivan quote at 3'29", from their comic opera "Iolanthe", Act 2, song "When all night long" sung by Private Willis. Gilbert was referring to the British Parliament, btw.

@MsSBVideos 8 лет назад

I thought buckyballs were little magnetic spheres you could stick together and play with and kids could choke on.

@franchisepitstop3849 6 лет назад

Just Brilliant!! Great Vid!!

@DerPilotMann 8 лет назад

It is really cool to hear about "Bucky." I actually live in Carbondale, IL, attending SIU, and he was from around here (or at least he worked at the university at some point) and I live right around the corner from the "Bucky Dome" which is a house with that geodesic dome pattern. Also, "Fat Patties" has a bucky dome burger... It is delicious, and artery ruining.

@Lego9663Studios 9 лет назад

Now I really like this. Really good science. No preconceived notions getting in the way of progress. :)

@lemonadeisyum 9 лет назад

Great episode!

@Romanticoutlaw 9 лет назад

buckyball is hands down the cutest name for something scientific

@playc.holder6432 9 лет назад

Oh my god. The intercellular starwars-esque warfare images conjured up in my head when you said buckybombs is epic. This needs to happen and we need animations!

@GeterPoldstein 9 лет назад

3:28 Loving the Gilbert and Sullivan quotation. Iolanthe :)

@jakethompsonyt40 5 лет назад

Nice vid bro, look forward to future videos.

@buckyohare5501 9 лет назад

Best Scishow Episode yet!

@MotherEarth1998 9 лет назад

Wow, really quite extraordinary, particularly the bit about medical uses

@amartyamishra6961 9 лет назад

Always awesome!

@KieranLeCam 9 лет назад

Imagine if one day, some form of life was made with these bucky balls! Incredibly flexible but can dent diamond? Almost sounds like the perfect body! Thank you for this information :)

@moomunch5522 9 лет назад

I have never taken notes on a youtube video before, now I have!

@MitchSummers 8 лет назад

Great video! Oddly enough, I just heard about c60 in the Al Jazeera dark side of sports documentary. C60 was mentioned as being used "off the record" in the military. It seemed he was alluding to it as a supplement and not a "buckybomb" but they didn't elaborate.

@SESResearchInc 9 месяцев назад

Good documentary and interesting that they mention C60 as it is not a flag substance in sports.

@FlyingJetpack1 9 лет назад

My teacher also told me they use the buckyballs for an almost frictionless matirial in very expensive gears or machines with alot of moving parts that are used on space flights like the ISS.

@sopheyrac1204 9 лет назад

I had an exam on this last week! If only this had been out then. I only remembered what I learned about them because I imagined Bucky Barnes trapped in a tiny carbon football.

@dagamerking 9 лет назад

This is awesome!

@diegofloor 9 лет назад

I don't know if I said this already but this is the only popular science thing that I actually learn something. (not because I'm dumb but because I usually know what is being talked about)

@iLLadelph267 9 месяцев назад

came back to here during a material science rabbit hole and I miss that longer SciShow intro

@daniellbondad6670 7 лет назад

Carbon can be ugly(charcoal) or shiny(diamond).Weak(charcoal) or strong(carbon nanotubes).Nothing against coal.They do give off very useful heat for everyone to share.

@xStrayMongrelx 9 лет назад

Now I must see a bucket of "Buckyball Soup" and see it's fluid dynamics in action. Who is up to the challenge of creating this monstrosity?

@Grond112358 9 лет назад

FINALLY the Buckyball. Thank you, SciShow.

@BandanaDrummer95 7 лет назад

I'm not sure if it was known at the time of this video, but there is another interesting property of fullerenes : they can form compounds with helium. Really all that they do is entrap it, but if I remember correctly, it still changes the chemical properties.

@allanburton2301 9 лет назад

I love this show

@jeantaylor8156 3 года назад

Very interesting I’ve heard that Elite Shungite contains the C60 fullerene molecule also thank you for the info

@TheBossOfTheWorld123 9 лет назад

Now i love buckyballs even more.

@fromscratchauntybindy9743 9 лет назад

Buckyball! Finally something sciencey that is fun to say and easy to spell!

@ragnkja 9 лет назад

The discovery of fullerenes even led to the addition of a new _symbol_ for writing chemical equations:@. As you might guess, it means the substance before the @ symbol is _inside_ the one after it, like H2O @ C60

@ashleylala4293 6 лет назад

That member of the British house of lords must have felt pretty stupid when they discovered that C60 nearly doubles the lifespan of rats.

@AzraelsEntertainment 8 лет назад

Goddamn it SciShow, I want to sleep but your content is so fascinating and informative!

@kenpanderz672 2 года назад

Bucky Bombs are both hilarious and terrifying.

@Harpisimos27 9 лет назад

AWESOME!

@alexanderlenox4329 9 лет назад

This is the weirdest wonder chemical known to man. Now I want some!

@Silent_Python 9 лет назад

So carbon is the hardest thing on earth now? pfft screw diamond rings now we will make carbon rings!

@personbot2770 9 лет назад

MrGareth66.com Diamonds are made of carbon.

@Silent_Python 9 лет назад

Person Bot 27 MrGangsterCabbage well there called diamonds and not carbon. So ye I hope you see my point in the joke there...

@josephfox9221 9 лет назад

Person Bot 27 shut up. dont spoil his dreams

@MsSqueashy 9 лет назад

LOL OWNED

@personbot2770 9 лет назад

Joseph Fox How was I spoiling his dreams. I was simply stating a fact, and his point is still perfectly valid so long as you replace the word "carbon" with "buckyball." I was just trying to clear up a misconception.

@fishofdopeness 9 лет назад

I was just reading up on buckminsterfullerene earlier today! What an enjoyable coinky-dink.

@curtissilveria7225 9 лет назад

I work in a polymers lab at my college and we work on Organic solar cells, (flexible solar panels.) We use PCBM (Phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester) which is a derivative of these buckyballs that is made soluble. We dissolve it in dichlorobenzene normally. It's a decent electron acceptor and can make a thin layer of it within our solar cells.The solar panels are very low performing right now though :( But we continue on FOR SCIENCE!!

@pollenlight7150 2 года назад

thank you. The grand design led me here.:)

@TytolisMemes 7 лет назад

Buckyballs? Buckybombs? What next? Buckyballbombs?

@jamez6398 9 лет назад

Man these men looks really respectable. Gotta love that

@PixelCortex 9 лет назад

That is so cool! microscopic explosives!

@joshanonline 9 лет назад

Quite interesting . i always wondered why haven't we made ball-shaped atom structures from different materials yet.. so its expensive huh. wonder what other molecule structures we have yet to discover with interesting properties .

@teamyahshuaorgteamyahshuad3202 4 года назад

The thing I haven't been able to find is, what did the rats eat during this study? And does that contribute to the longevity without tumors. As the first group had tumors when they died of old age... As one researcher said, we get the same results with the rats on a ketogenic diet, but when the food changed back to a McDonald's type diet, the rat tumor growth spiked overnight, while it was on a 40% decline...? So my question, which I have not found the answer to, is , does anyone know what food they were feeding these rats in the initial study? Also, why isn't anyone else asking that question? With such a study, one needs to look at everything, especially in the light of new studies attempting to replicate these results...

@linguaphilly 9 лет назад

Ok I couldn't help laughing when you introduced the term 'buckybomb' lol

@MrBikerJesus 9 лет назад

Now I have this imagine in my head of a doctor making microscopic airplanes that fly over a tumor and drop bombs on it before returning to base.

@Dahxelb 9 лет назад

3:42 .. Can create a substance harder than Diamond you say .. Now that caught my interest. How does it's structure re-arrange? Make a full other episodes on the top hardest/strongest substances/materials, and include this compressed harder-than-diamond buckyball substance please.

@Telamon8 9 лет назад

Buckyballs are the greatest toy ever!

@PopsicleSponge 9 лет назад

But even better the one free electron on each carbon makes 2 separate Pi Bonding systems across the ball. The P Orbitals distort to stretch wider on the outside and smaller on the inside Giving it an Exo and Endo orbital 'Shell'.

@CaptainJackMorenzo 9 лет назад

Well that's comforting to hear... Buckybombs and medicine in the same sentence. ssssSCIENCE!!

@michelletheatom 4 года назад

Robert Curl: Okay, thanks.

@Kumomyst 9 лет назад

Jacksepticeye: "I LOVE BALLS!"

@TimpBizkit Год назад

I can imagine atomic stickmen kicking one around in a nano world cup stadium.

@noahg.9113 9 лет назад

Buckminister... that is officially the new best name ever XD

@sonic2power2 9 лет назад

Wow Buckybombs... awesome name!!!

@LordAmerican 9 лет назад

Buckybombs ... who knew something that a little dangerous could sound silly?

@pandojustpando8204 9 лет назад

We call it soccer in Australia too! Over here football usually refers to AFL or sometimes rugby.

@RubyCheetahCub 8 лет назад

Me reading the title: small spherical magnets that can make really cool things.

@MrScooter46290 9 лет назад

SciShow Request about a episode about Mr. Richard Buckmaster Fuller. and the discovery of the geodesic dome. I would like to know what brought him to think about domes.

@soupy_yty 9 лет назад

holy crap i just learned about buckyball today at school!

@florianderoose 9 лет назад

What about making thin-film transistors (TFT) with them, used for example in future screens? It seems to be an interesting semiconductor as well!

@PinkChucky15 9 лет назад

How awesome :-)

@Bugatti1 9 лет назад

I really like the intro music...

@OrlovKruskayev 9 лет назад

If this came online in april 1st I would not believe it with all of my force. "Buckyballs", "Buckybombs". There is no way.

@jo_elk 9 лет назад

Also interesting: in 1999 quantum physicists from the University of Vienna managed to show wave-particle duality of C60 molecules, meaning the C60 bucky balls behaved like waves and showed interference!

@flatbat13 6 лет назад

Do another video on graphene! We figured out how to mass produce it and man oh man does it have some awesome abilities!!!

@mr.j774 9 лет назад

id like to see an episode on Vantablack. very related to this episode.

@brynbeckham1101 8 лет назад

that is so cool

@PillowTalk420 9 лет назад

Trying to imagine a scientist named Kroto makes me think of a comic book super villain archtype.

@andrewkahn7345 9 лет назад

I thought this episode was about those fun little magnetic balls. I was mistaken

@Poollz 9 лет назад

science is amazing

@WilliamDye-willdye 9 лет назад

R.I.P. Rick Smalley. I got to meet him at a Foresight conference many years ago. He spent a lot time patiently explaining the basics of Quantum Mechanics to a single young student who sat near him to ask a few questions. Imagine getting a free one-on-one tutorial from a Nobel Laureate on chemistry. I didn't agree with some of his ideas about mechanosynthesis, but I was really impressed with his kindness and intelligence. I have to wonder if exposure to carbon nanotubes caused his leukemia.

@smarteconomy 9 лет назад

William Dye see link between Carbon 60 Hydrated Fullerenes and Cancer Metastasis ocad.academia.edu/WalterDerzko/Papers

@scabiniful 9 лет назад

traumatic flashback to organic chemistry. i enjoyed learning some of the history behind it though.

@bradladam 9 лет назад

Scishow is actually its own experiment. Over the years, they have researched what places watch scishow (relative to the population (ie. percentage)) thus discovering the scientifically curious parts of the world This video has many comments where they have corrected the American word 'soccer' to 'football'which prove how many Europeans watch scishow (relative to the number of comments, not views)

@Vonliktenstien 9 лет назад

I'm in a loud room so every time you said, "buckyball" I heard "Pokeball." Needless to say, I was pretty excited. "Pokeballs are all around us."

@HajoBenzin1 9 лет назад

(Question for the next episode): At the beginning I noticed a strange phenomenon - I started the video, looked away and muted the sound. In my head I was trying to follow/mimic the intro music to the exact moment the episode will start. Even if I mimicked it veeery slowly, the intro music was still much longer in the video than in my head. I finished the music/sound much quicker although I was convinced that I slowed it down in my head alot. Why is this so?

@MadsKjerulff 9 лет назад

Patient: So doctor, what are you doing? Doctor: I am just filling your body with explosives. yeah...

@dariogonzalez4041 9 лет назад

i wonder what it will looks like if you made enough of it for you to be able to see it with the naked eye

@minibutteranimation2160 6 лет назад

Wtf! I was actually looking for the crash course! N just randomly hit this video! It's the same crash course guy! XD

@skram1000 9 лет назад

great vid and nice hair haha

@sinecurve9999 9 лет назад

C60 solid also becomes a superconductor when doped with alkali atoms such as rubidium or potassium. Superior potassium... From Kazakhstan, of course...