4. The Story of the Buckyball

5. Our story starts off with stars in space

6. The Sun is a Star – Our Star

7. Our Earth goes round the Sun

8. One day many millions of years into the future

9. the Sun will blow up

11. aaaaghhh!!!

12. Ouch! it’s

13. HOT

14. There are lots and lots and lots of stars like our Sun in space

15. In fact there are about ten thousand million stars in Space

16. We can write this in numbers as 10 000 000 000 000 000 000 000

17. 1 followed by 22 noughts (or zeros)

18. We can write 10 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 as 10 22

20. is a very

21. BIG number

22. ………, There are 10 dots here

23. ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, 100

24. ………, ………, ………, ………, ………, 1000

25. This is only 1000 so…

26. 10 22

27. is really

28. really

29. BIG

30. Now lets think about something that is very Very small a molecule

31. We are all made out of very tiny molecules

32. Molecules are bundles of very tiny atoms Carbon atomsC Nitrogen atomsN Oxygen atomsO Hydrogen atomsH …mainly

33. The water molecule, H 2 O, has two Hydrogen atoms and one Oxygen atom O H

34. and it is very small

35. In a glass of water there are about a million million million million water molecules

36. 1000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 =10 24

37. Where did our atoms come from?

38. All your atoms were made a very long time ago inside a star a bit like our Sun

39. That star exploded millions of years ago

44. and blew your atoms into space

45. They floated around in space for millions of years

46. and ended up here TODAY

47. So you should be very

48. happy

49. So we all came from outer space We are all aliens

50. We tried to create a bit of a very very hot star in our laboratory

51. With a magnifying glass and Sunlight you can burn a hole in a piece of wood Sun’s Rays lens

52. We used a laser instead of the Sun and Graphite like the lead in a pencil laser graphite

53. clusters of 60 atoms formed

54. We decided that the 60 carbon atoms were stuck together to form a cage with the same pattern as a soccer ball

55. o

56. o

57. o

58. C 60 : Buckminsterfullerene

59. The Earth is 100,000,000 times larger than a soccerball and a soccerball is 100,000,000 x larger than a Buckyball 10 7 m 10 -1 m 10 -9 m 10 8

60. o

62. 12 Pentagons on a Soccer Ball 12 x 5 = 60 corners

63. An Australian Fly

69. Algebra

70. Euler’s Law Faces + Corners – Edges = 2

71. The Cube

72. Cube Faces Edges Corners

77. + _

78. + _

79. A Pyramid

82. F =

84. C =

86. E =

89. Now you are going to make a model of C 60 the Buckyball

91. School Arts/Science project

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