Google doodles buckyball
New Google doodle for celebrate 25 years of discovery
Google is celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Buckyball – the discovery of Buckminster-Fullerene molecules?- as an interactive Google Doddle on Saturday.
Visitors to Google.com and Google.co.uk will see the second “o” as a small moving ball before turning into a buckyball when you move your mouse over it.
Users can then spin the newly formed molecule to their hearts content. Clicking on the logo take you to a search for “buckyball”
A?fullerene?is any?molecule?composed entirely of carbon, in the form of a hollow?sphere,?ellipsoid, or?tube.
Spherical fullerenes are also called?buckyballs, and cylindrical ones are called?carbon nanotubes?or buckytubes according to Wikipedia.
Fullerenes are similar in structure to?graphite, which is composed of stacked?graphene?sheets of linked hexagonal rings; but they may also contain pentagonal (or sometimes heptagonal) rings.
Google regulary celebrates?scientists?within its Google doodles featuring the discovery of DNA, Albert?Einstein’s?birthday and others in the past.
Google doodles buckyball originally appeared on http://www.pocket-lint.com on Sat, 04 Sep 2010 11:58:00 +0100
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